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Climate change

Multilateralism as India’s climate mantra

The current pace and scale of climate finance and technology support from developed countries are not matching the global aspiration to combat climate change,...

OWSA Staff - 28 January 2022

COVID-19

How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Asia’s indigenous women

Lockdown measures and restrictive policies in the wake of COVID-19 have led to shrinkage of livelihood options for indigenous women and severely affected household...

OWSA Contributor - 28 January 2022

Afghanistan

India, Central Asia to form working group on Afghanistan

The first India-Central Asia Summit coincided with the 30th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Central Asian countries. A virtual summit organised...

OWSA Staff - 28 January 2022

Accountability

NACO has discontinued producing its annual reports since 2016

NACO has not published an annual report since 2016. Annual reports since 2016-17 appear as part of the annual reports of the ministry of...

Khushi Malhotra - 28 January 2022

COVID-19

Pfizer, BioNTech initiate study to evaluate Omicron vaccine in adults

First participants enrolled in clinical trial received Omicron-based vaccine candidate as a two-dose primary series and as a booster dose. Drugs and pharma giants Pfizer...

OWSA Staff - 27 January 2022

Human rights

ICRC still clueless on data breach

ICRC’s “deep data drive” into the hacking of its servers does not seem to have yielded much, except the knowledge that hackers had been...

OWSA Staff - 27 January 2022

COVID-19

Micro-estimates of wealth data ‘can help tackle poverty’

Around 97 million people were pushed into extreme poverty in 2021. Now, researchers at the University of California and the Data for Good programme...

SciDevNet - 27 January 2022

COVID-19

India should spend its way out of post-COVID-19 economic crisis

In view of the structural break in the global economy as well as the domestic economy, the government’s budget plans should be two-pronged —...

Policy Circle - 27 January 2022

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