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India dangerously backsliding on rights, says Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2022

Activists and critics were targeted and authorities gave up any appearance of tolerating dissent and used the machinery of the state to silence critics. Indian...

OWSA Staff - 13 January 2022

Bangladesh

Omicron threatens to overwhelm health systems in SouthAsia

The Omicron variant is fueling a rapid surge of COVID-19 across South Asia that threatens to overwhelm health systems still reeling from a deadly...

OWSA Staff - 13 January 2022

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

COVID-19

American Red Cross declares a first-ever blood crisis amid Omicron surge

Dire blood shortage has forced doctors to delay critical blood transfusions for people in need. The Red Cross and the National Football League have...

OWSA Staff - 12 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

Bangladesh

Bangladesh government mulls introducing green tax to meet its environment goals

The carrot and stick policy to impose of green taxes on the one hand and incentivise green service providers on the other hand is...

OWSA Staff - 12 January 2022

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