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    New Anti-Rape Crisis Centre Brings Hope for Sexual Abuse Survivors in Pakistan

    The centre will offer free legal assistance to ensure that the forensic examination and tests are done correctly and lawyers can argue their cases...
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    Maldives Launches Mental Health Helpline

    The service will provide counselling and support tailored to individual mental health challenges. Red flags, such as callers expressing suicidal thoughts will be conveyed...
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    Asia Pacific

    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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    Afghanistan

    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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    Accountability

    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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    Accountability

    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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    Desperate Race Against Time: Mud-Choked Hydro Tunnels Hold Hundreds of Missing Workers

    The scale of the challenge has made this one of the most complex rescue efforts in Nepal’s recent history.
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