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    Push to Top COP27 Agenda with Thorny Compensation Talks

    Developing countries have high expectations from the ‘Africa COP’ due next month as the COP27 president, Egypt, says loss and damage finance is ‘well...
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    Modi Scores Political Points at Housing Inaugural

    The Prime Minister said, today’s government is the government of the poor, so it cannot leave the poor on their own terms, and therefore, today the poor is at...
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    Average tropical cyclones cost Bangladesh about $ 1 billion annually. By 2050, a third of agricultural GDP could be lost. In case of a...
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    What Does it take to Build a Culture of Equality and Inclusion at the UN?

    This work has also highlighted that whilst the organisational is personal, so too the personal is often dependent on the organisational. Engaging with intersectional...
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    Unchecked Constructions on River Beds Exacerbated Pakistan Floods

    Officials and politicians are now waking up the rampant, illegal encroachments and constructions on the beds of the Swat river and other watercourses. They...
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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh: High Growth, But Little Employment

    Many of the new jobless people are women, a large number of whom lost their jobs due to their failure to adapt to technology...
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    Empowerment

    Swat Women Won’t Be ‘Duped’ by Militants This Time

    Instead of giving the women what the TTP promised, they took away their right to life altogether. They were forced to give up jobs...
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    COVID-19

    India Committed to Protecting Global Health, Says Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

    The health minister highlighted the need to acknowledge existing fault lines in the Global Health Architecture and the importance of building an inclusive, agile...
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