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    ‘Our common agenda’: Guterres’ open door to corporate capture of the UN

    UN member states need to reject multistake-holderism that reinforces the role of problematic exclusive membership clubs (OECD, G20 etc) and enables corporate capture of...
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    India-Bangladesh friendship dialogue begins Friday

    The tenth round of India-Bangladesh friendship dialogue will be an all-out BJP participation, say sources. Participants are miffed because they won’t have time to...
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    Human rights

    India opposes reference of workers’ law to Hague

    India, China, Russia, US are among 14 countries opposing ILO convention 87 on workers right to association being referred to the International Court of...
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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh: Rights experts decry ‘appalling’ culture of impunity around killing of journalists

    UN human rights experts point out that the authorities in Bangladesh have yet to conduct an investigation into the murder of prominent journalists Sagar...
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    Number of internally displaced in Myanmar doubles, to 800,000

    The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Myanmar has doubled since February of last year, now crossing the 800,000 mark, the UN refugee...
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    A not just another I-told-you-so thesis

    OWSA reproduces a blog put up by distinguished food and agricultural policy specialist, author and writer, Devinder Sharma, who in turn, brought out a...
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    UN’s investigative arm launches survey to probe racism, discrimination

    Several interest groups who have bonded together to fight for their rights in the light of allegations and reports of widespread discrimination based either...
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    COVID-19

    An international treaty on pandemic prevention?

    A narrow focus on a pandemic preparedness treaty would be a missed opportunity to truly revolutionize global health governance and with it, reset and...
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    Bangladesh Decentralisation Drive: District-Level Government Departments to Come Under Elected Councils

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