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    Human Rights Defenders Write to Guterres; Say Next OHCHR Must be a Rights Champion

    The post of High Commissioner should be filled by someone of high moral standing and personal integrity, and who is independent and impartial and...
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    Washington’s Rohingya Genocide Declaration Is Symbolic But Meaningful

    Since the United States typically only cooperates with the International Criminal Court when conditions suits it, the genocide declaration gives those within the administration...
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    Human Rights Council Hears of Situation of Nepal Dalits

    The UN Expert on Extreme Poverty on Wednesday told the Human Rights Council that the persistence of social discrimination faced by Dalits in Nepal...
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    Marginalized Since Birth

    Despite legal provisions, the births of many Dalit children in the Madhes are not registered, mostly due to a lack of documentation on the...
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    Accountability

    Jobs Will Not Empower Young Women Until We Address Sexual Harassment

    Local authorities are often men who often dismiss their cases, blame the women, or telling them to be ‘forgiving’. Young women and their families...
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    Accountability

    Civil Society Holding the Line in Contested Times: 2022 CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report

    Current crises are exposing the inadequacies of the international governance system, says CIVICUS in its annual report on the State of Civil Society. The...
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    Accountability

    Private Sector Employment: Do Gatekeepers Indeed Believe in Equal Opportunities?

    As if it is a comment on the times we live in, the fictitious Hindu woman job applicant named Priyanka Sharma received 208 positive...
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    Civil society

    A Look at Democracy in Pakistan –  Part II

    The earlier article, following a talk at Islamabad’s National Institute of Pakistan Studies, put an academic lens on understanding the nexus between Pakistan’s powerful...
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