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    Food Banks are Early Warning Systems for Emerging Food Crises, But also a Key Solution

    Recent feedback from food bank leaders all over the world already echoes the reality ahead. Food banks are reporting decreases in product donations of...
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    One-Time Boost With Cow, Cash Eases Poverty, Says Study

    Transfer of assets such as cows to rural Bangladeshi households can help them rise from poverty, according to a study that says that details...
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    Is This Nepal’s Nirbhaya Moment?

    People, at times even a few thousands of them, have come out to rally in support of an abused Nepali woman, galvanized by a...
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    Child Labour

    Former Child Labourer, now Lawyer, Passes Light of Freedom to Others

    “It’s very necessary because the leaders, the decision-makers, sometimes forget, sometimes neglect what they promised. They need to be reminded. And also, because the...
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    Child Labour

    From Child Laborer to Activist, Tara Banjara Asks World to Pledge to End the Scourge of Child Labour

    Tara Banjara, rescued from her life of a child labour at the age of eight years, questions whether children who are born poor are...
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    Civil society

    People’s Participation Can Prevent Forest Fires of Uttarakhand

    Creation of more van panchayats and more autonomy to these bodies would strengthen the involvement of local communities in preventing forest fires. By Prem Bahukhandi Forest...
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    Children

    Spare A Thought For Sri Lanka’s Forever Marginalised Communities

    Let us remind ourselves of the promise we have made to our future generations – all so clearly embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals....
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    Accountability

    Red Cross Fund Document Takes Note of Civil Unrest in Sri Lanka

    The Red Cross aid document has called this a fund for civil unrest – though the grant document alludes to the unrest being a...
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