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Civil society

Disappointment Over COVID-19 Vaccines Patents Deal

Global health campaigners have expressed their disappointment in the decision by the World Trade Organization to waive certain intellectual property rules on vaccine exports...

SciDevNet - 24 June 2022

Afghanistan

A Prosthetic Leg, Relay Messengers Help Unite Hakimullah with His Family

Reuniting the young boy with his family required the skills of a team of detectives. But, ironically, a lost limb held an important clue...

OWSA Contributor - 24 June 2022

Asia Pacific

This is 2022 and Iran is Set to ‘Finger Guillotine’

A sawing contraption will cut off four fingers of the right hands of seven men convicted of burglary in Tehran. But the medieval form...

OWSA Contributor - 24 June 2022

Civil society

A Look at Democracy in Pakistan

Generals and judges may not be the richest people in the country but powerful they are. So there emerges a nexus among the powerful...

OWSA Contributor - 24 June 2022

Forced disappearances

Death Sentences in Myanmar

Governments and civil society from across the world have called for dropping plans for the executions urged on the international community to step up...

Inter Press Service - 17 June 2022

Climate change

$33 Billion Funding Gap for Climate ‘Loss And Damage’

As costs of extreme weather events are rise rapidly and as campaigners urge for a loss and damage finance facility ahead of COP27, an...

SciDevNet - 16 June 2022

Accountability

Sri Lanka’s Struggle to Bring Down The Rajapaksas

The complete ouster of Rajapaksa rule will not transform Sri Lanka unless the country embraces the rule of law and pluralism. The current intercommunal...

East Asia Forum - 16 June 2022

Education policy

Agnipath Training Credits for Graduation, Says Education Ministry

The ministry of education announced on Wednesday a special three-year skill based bachelor degree programme for serving Agniveers that will enhance the future career...

OWSA Staff - 16 June 2022

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