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Civil society

The straw that broke Kazakhstan’s back

The three-day reign of terror in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, is one of the darkest pages in the country’s three decades since independence. Afraid of even...

Inter Press Service - 13 January 2022

Human rights

New union-employer agreement in Sri Lanka addresses key worker rights

In a historic victory for the workers and their unions, the MoU establishes a bipartite dispute resolution mechanism by the unions and the forum...

OWSA Staff - 13 January 2022

Climate change

The last seven years have been the warmest since records were maintained. The slugfest between farm and fossil-fuel guzzling industry goes on.

With its report on the heightening of temperatures over the past seven years, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service report tends to put...

OWSA Contributor - 12 January 2022

Afghanistan

Another US$308 million towards UN’s Afghan emergency humanitarian aid appeal from US

The UN appeal for US$5 billion in aid for Afghanistan to avert a humanitarian catastrophe has got US$308 million from the US. The US on...

OWSA Staff - 12 January 2022

Gender

Canada becomes fifth country to ban conversion therapy

Canada outlaws attempts to use any form of therapy to convert lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders. Canada last week became the fifth country after Brazil,...

OWSA Staff - 11 January 2022

Civil society

Time for Public Conversation, Justice after ‘Blasphemy’ killing in Pakistan, say Rights Activists

People from all walks of life have been shocked and condemned the lynching of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, a Sri Lankan factor manager working in...

Inter Press Service - 11 January 2022

Afghanistan

Banners in Kabul order women to cover themselves

Posters have come up all over Kabul city conveying the Taliban's message to women instructing them to wear the all-encompassing burqa and the black...

OWSA Contributor - 11 January 2022

Bangladesh

Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar hit by second fire in 10 days

2022's second big fire incident in a Rohingya refugee camp has destroyed almost 600 temporary shelters. A massive fire broke out in housing camp 16,...

OWSA Staff - 10 January 2022

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