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Diversity

Nepal’s President Puts Her Foot Down, Refuses to Sign Citizenship Bill

If signed into law, the bill will grant citizenship rights to thousands of people, mostly of Indian origin. How the proposed law could help...

OWSA Contributor - 23 September 2022

Democracy

Multi-Faith Team Urges Repeal of Blasphemy Laws – in the Name of Religious Freedom

A delegation of human rights and religious freedom advocates is visiting the United Nations this week to increase support among UN Member States for...

Inter Press Service - 20 September 2022

Diversity

Lessons from a Life Well Lived

This is the last part of my series of columns about my father – M Rashad Mahmood – who was born in Bombay in...

OWSA Contributor - 5 August 2022

Afghanistan

Afghan Women Face Death in Slow Motion, Says Amnesty Study

The report follows a nine-month investigation conducted from September 2021 to June 2022 and included a visit to Afghanistan by the group's researchers back...

OWSA Contributor - 1 August 2022

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Gender Ratio Tilts Towards Women for the First Time Ever

Bangladesh’s total population increased from 14.4 crore in 2011 to 16.51 crore in 2022. The country recorded an average annual population growth rate of...

OWSA Contributor - 28 July 2022

Accountability

Bangladesh’s NHRC to Probe Attack on Hindus; Administration Negligence

The Bangladesh NHRC investigation into the riots in Lohagara, where Hindu homes and shops were attacked, will also explore negligence on the part of...

OWSA Staff - 18 July 2022

Diversity

Exodus of Sikhs from Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Following May Killings

Fear prevails among the Sikhs of North-west Pakistan after two Sikhs businessmen were shot dead on May 15 in Peshawar. Sikhs feel that the...

OWSA Contributor - 12 July 2022

Bangladesh

India’s Bangladeshi Bogeyman

During the 2019 election campaign, then BJP president and now Home Minister, Amit Shah, described Bengali-speaking Muslims in border states as ‘termites’—invoking the same...

East Asia Forum East Asia Forum - 11 July 2022

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