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Democracy

Shrinking Job Market Deepens Economic Crisis in Myanmar

New ILO estimates shows that Myanmar remains deeply affected by job losses in first half of 2022 as employment remains well below 2020 levels...

OWSA Staff - 6 August 2022

Diversity

Lessons from a Life Well Lived

This is the last part of my series of columns about my father – M Rashad Mahmood – who was born in Bombay in...

OWSA Contributor - 5 August 2022

Democracy

The Politics of the Hangman’s Noose: Judge, Jury and Executioner

The death penalty is inconsistent with the right to life and the right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...

Inter Press Service - 4 August 2022

Accountability

The Tragedy of Pakistan: Feudalism Camouflaged as Democracy

Limit the vote to those who have had at least 10 years of schooling. People who are educated have minds of their own. They...

Inter Press Service - 3 August 2022

COVID-19

Violence, Unsafe Water ‘World’s Biggest Risks’, Says Global Survey

World Risk Poll says that a third of the 125,000 people it surveyed across 121 countries said that they felt ‘less safe’. Globally, the...

SciDevNet - 3 August 2022

Afghanistan

Afghan Women Face Death in Slow Motion, Says Amnesty Study

The report follows a nine-month investigation conducted from September 2021 to June 2022 and included a visit to Afghanistan by the group's researchers back...

OWSA Contributor - 1 August 2022

Maternal and Child Health

Abortion in Canada — Legal for Decades But Hindered by Stigma

Abortion access differs by province partly because healthcare in Canada is a provincial responsibility. According to 2019 figures, Quebec has the highest number of access...

Inter Press Service - 31 July 2022

Accountability

First Person: I Go to Sleep and Wake Up to the Sound of Gunfire

A young man whose community has been at the epicentre of the violence that has been raging between rival gangs in the troubled neighbourhood...

OWSA Contributor - 30 July 2022

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