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    Why Profit-Making Has No Place in Care

    Care is a human right first and foremost. Providing good quality care is challenging even in the best conditions. However, when care providers look...
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    Reports of Sexual Violence in Ukraine Rising Fast, UN Security Council Told

    Protection challenges facing the nearly 6.8 million people who have fled the country are unprecedented. As of 3 June, the Human Rights Monitoring Team...
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    Accountability

    Collateral Damage? At Least Two Kids Killed Daily in Ukraine

    At least two children have been killed every day with many more injured in nearly 100 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, says UNICEF. It...
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    Agri-business

    A Global Food Crisis: Shortage Amidst Plenty

    Instead of food shortage, the reality is that the world produces far more food than we eat. Over 33 percent of the food produced globally is...
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    Protests in Peshawar as Afghan Musicians Are Sent To Prison for Overstaying

    The Taliban's intolerance for music has found an able partner in the Peshawar police that has rounded up where four musicians on charges of...
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    Empowerment

    Spelling Out: Supreme Court Ruling On Sex Work As A Legal Profession

    A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that sex workers were entitled to dignity and equal protection under the law, saying they shouldn't...
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    A Tale of Two Genocide Cases: International Justice in Ukraine And Myanmar

    The way Russia and Myanmar have responded to the cases reveals much about the strengths and limits of international justice mechanisms in addressing global...
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    Child Rights

    Is This Nepal’s Nirbhaya Moment?

    People, at times even a few thousands of them, have come out to rally in support of an abused Nepali woman, galvanized by a...
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