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    Myanmar, Women and Drugs – An Abusive Cocktail

    Punitive drug policies have disproportionate impacts on populations facing systemic marginalisation due to their ethnicity, gender, sexuality, migration status, and their socioeconomic conditions. Women...
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    Empowerment

    Four among 25 Sri Lankan university students say they have been sexually harassed, even raped, says study

    A report released Tuesday on ragging and sexual and gender based violence in Sri Lankan State universities highlights grave consequences young women face in...
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    Afghanistan

    Former Afghan Judges Demand Taliban to Return Them Their Jobs, Salaries

    The judges, dismissed immediately after the Taliban overthrew the elected government, have filed a suit demanding that the Taliban return them to their positions...
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    Afghanistan

    Taliban, Chinese Mining Conglomerate, to Discuss Copper Mining in Logar Province

    A deal signed in 2008 with the previous US-backed government, but it came to a standstill after a Taliban-led attack. By Maliha Safi A Chinese delegation...
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    Finance and Economy

    Murder, deaths, runaway inflation – the litany of the common Sri Lankan

    Minor scuffles, fist-fights, people dying in queues, heat strokes and cases of knife-stabbing are increasingly becoming a feature of Sri Lankan life in 2021. Three...
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    Accountability

    Pakistan Chalks Agreement with Mining Giants; Avoids $ 11 Billion in Penalties

    The mineral reserves were discovered at the foot of an extinct volcano called the Reko Diq mines in the western province of Balochistan along...
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    Agriculture

    Earthworms Can Replace Use of Synthetic Fertilisers, New Research Suggests

    Earthworms could have the potential to replace some high-cost mineral or synthetic fertilisers, suggests a new study. By David Kearns  /  University College Dublin Researchers at University...
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    Accountability

    ADB to Continue Support for Pakistan’s Post-Pandemic Recovery

    Officials reiterated the development bank’s earlier commitment following five days of hectic parleys in Islamabad, led by the ADB’s Vice President. As the Asian Development...
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