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    Forced Migration Grows, Justice Withers, Say Activists at World Social Forum

    Research found that 51 per cent of households migrated after being hit by cyclones, floods, salt water intrusion in their fields, erratic rainfall and...
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    Drastic Erosion of Women’s Rights in Taliban Ruled Afghanistan Continues

    Afghan women fear arrest, harassment and further punishment whenever a new Taliban decree is announced, according to a new multi-agency UN report issued on...
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    Ejecting the Military from Pakistan’s Politics

    Given Pakistan's ripe economic instability -- characterised by high inflation, structural imbalances, and weak growth -- the future remains uncertain, with doubts lingering over...
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    Human rights

    NITI Aayog Releases Position Paper– Senior Care Reforms in India: Reimagining the Senior Care Paradigm

    The Position Paper strives to push the frontiers of senior care by recognizing the evolving medical and non-medical needs of seniors, thus envisioning a...
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    Pakistan’s Majority Defies its Military Establishment

    In Pakistan’s general elections on 8 February 2024, millions voted against the country's military establishment, electing the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and the former...
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    Human rights

    UN’s Financial Troubles Jeopardize Critical Human Rights Work

    The US isn’t the only member country that has been slow to pay – 50 others hadn’t paid as of the end of 2023....
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    Civil society

    World Social Forum Insists: Another World is Possible!

    The day began with a march through the vehicle-clogged centre of Kathmandu, a city of about 5 million people. By Marty Logan These are the worst of...
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    Civil society

    World Social Forum Seeks to Re-emerge as an Influential Gathering of Diversity

    Holding the gathering in Asia opens new horizons for the WSF, as it is the most dynamic region of the global South, at least...
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