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    Vultures Will Be Guests At Nepal’s High Profile Restaurants

    Vulture restaurants, also called Jatayu restaurants are designed to provide safe animal carcass to the endangered birds. Imagine a restaurant serving animal carcass to its...
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    FCRA registration certificate validity extended

    There is some good news on the last day of 2021. The validity of FCRA registration certificate has been extended today. There is some good...
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    Child Rights

    The future of an entire generation hangs in the balance

    COVID-19 has upended our world, threatening our health, destroying economies and livelihoods, and deepening poverty and inequalities. It also created the single largest disruption...
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    News

    Uneven partnerships could stifle attainment of SDGs

    The 2030 agenda for sustainable development puts emphasis on equal partnerships. But lower-middle-income and low-income countries have fewer partnerships compared to rich nations, a...
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    Pakistan’s ghost villages limp back to peace and life

    About 38 villages in the Kurram district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were razed to the ground during the sectarian violence in 2007. Now, a...
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    Civil society

    Are cops ready for Jharkhand’s new anti-mob lynching law?

    Four years since the court’s judgement, Jharkhand is only the fourth state (after Manipur, Rajasthan and West Bengal) to have passed a legislation to...
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    Bangladesh

    Is climate change really SouthAsia’s raw nerve?

    Talk of climate change in SouthAsia has been pending since the last SAARC summit held in Kathmandu in 2014. SAARC nations have not met...
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    Human rights

    UN Special Envoy calls for New Year’s ceasefire in Myanmar

    The UN Special Envoy on Myanmar has appealed for a New Year’s ceasefire following weeks of escalating violence in the country. United Nations Special Envoy...
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    India Pushes Proactive Drought Resilience Over Reactive Relief at UNCCD COP17

    As COP17 continues through its thematic days on finance, water, land and people, and food systems and soil health, the focus remains on moving from declarations to measurable action.
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    As COP17 continues through its thematic days on finance, water, land and people, and food systems and soil health, the focus remains on moving from declarations to measurable action.
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