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    A Major Retrogression: UN Rights Experts on US Supreme Court Striking Down Roe v. Wade

    The decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down a nearly fifty-year-old legal precedent that has protected women’s right to...
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    Accountability

    UNAMA Says Taliban Interference Rising

    Civil society organizations working in Afghanistan face difficulties in hiring Afghan women staff. The UN says the psychosocial costs of denial of rights to...
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    Air

    India’s Rejection of Global Environment Report ‘Perilous’

    The Environmental Performance Index 2022 ranked India as world’s least environmentally sustainable country. India rejected the report, challenging its methodology. The EPI report’s chief...
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    Afghanistan

    New and Old Afghan Refugees Make the Best of Life in Neighbouring Pakistan

    Pakistan is home to 1.3 million registered refugees and more than double this number of unregistered ones who have fled neighbouring Afghanistan. Most of...
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    Agri-technology

    Leveraging Digital Technologies

    Digitalization of rural communities is leading the way to a better future across Asia and the Pacific. But, it must be remembered that the...
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    Civil society

    Disappointment Over COVID-19 Vaccines Patents Deal

    Global health campaigners have expressed their disappointment in the decision by the World Trade Organization to waive certain intellectual property rules on vaccine exports...
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    Afghanistan

    A Prosthetic Leg, Relay Messengers Help Unite Hakimullah with His Family

    Reuniting the young boy with his family required the skills of a team of detectives. But, ironically, a lost limb held an important clue...
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    Civil society

    A Look at Democracy in Pakistan

    Generals and judges may not be the richest people in the country but powerful they are. So there emerges a nexus among the powerful...
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    India Sets 15-Day Deadline for Rural Job Scheme Complaints Under New VB-G RAM G Rules

    The Ministry of Rural Development has stated that the rules seek to institutionalise a citizen-centric, accessible and time-bound framework, thereby reinforcing the rights and entitlements of rural households under the scheme. 
    IPR and patent regime

    US Startup Claims Breakthrough in Turning Mercury into Gold Using Nuclear Fusion

    Whether the process ever supplies meaningful quantities of gold will depend on breakthroughs still to come in fusion engineering and materials science.
    Civil society

    South Asia Democracy Conference Opens in Colombo Amid Regional Democratic Challenges

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    India Sets 15-Day Deadline for Rural Job Scheme Complaints Under New VB-G RAM G Rules

    The Ministry of Rural Development has stated that the rules seek to institutionalise a citizen-centric, accessible and time-bound framework, thereby reinforcing the rights and entitlements of rural households under the scheme. 
    IPR and patent regime

    US Startup Claims Breakthrough in Turning Mercury into Gold Using Nuclear Fusion

    Whether the process ever supplies meaningful quantities of gold will depend on breakthroughs still to come in fusion engineering and materials science.
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