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Policy analysis

What Future for a World of 8 Billion?

In countries where deaths outnumber births, the population is increasing very little, if at all. In some cases, it has already started to decline...

Inter Press Service - 12 July 2022

Diversity

Exodus of Sikhs from Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Following May Killings

Fear prevails among the Sikhs of North-west Pakistan after two Sikhs businessmen were shot dead on May 15 in Peshawar. Sikhs feel that the...

OWSA Contributor - 12 July 2022

Bangladesh

India’s Bangladeshi Bogeyman

During the 2019 election campaign, then BJP president and now Home Minister, Amit Shah, described Bengali-speaking Muslims in border states as ‘termites’—invoking the same...

East Asia Forum - 11 July 2022

Disaster risk reduction

UN Predicts 68 Percent of World’s Population will be Living in Urban Areas by 2050

Securing stronger and more resilient cities, able to withstand the more frequent shocks and hazards, will require a new social compact, a re-distribution of...

Inter Press Service - 11 July 2022

Accountability

Myanmar’s Junta Isn’t Even Sparing Children, Says UN Rights Expert

The Human Rights Council-appointed investigator said that Myanmar’s military junta’s violence against children caught up in the bloody aftermath of last February’s coup is...

OWSA Contributor - 10 July 2022

Child marriage

Swara Kills, Says Young Pakistani Bride

Swara, also known as Vani and Budla-i-sulh, is dispute resolution method where women and girls are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved...

OWSA Contributor - 10 July 2022

Accountability

Ranil Wickremesinghe’s House Burnt Down By Sri Lankan Protesters

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe’s private residence in Central Colombo has been set on fire by protesters demanding his government. Angry protesters have set...

OWSA Contributor - 9 July 2022

Accountability

Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Flees

Tens of thousands of protestors arriving from the site of the GotaGoGama agitation broke the security fences outside the president’s residence and took over...

OWSA Contributor - 9 July 2022

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