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    Researchers Document Profound Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Girls in Asia-Pacific

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    A Third of the World Remains Totally Unvaccinated against COVID-19, says WHO

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    Discrimination, Debt and Depression: Delhi’s Transgender people through COVID-19

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    Pandemic Pushes SDGs Further out of Reach of Asia and the Pacific

    The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is becoming increasingly distant. The region must use the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a roadmap to a...
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    Misinformation Fuelling and Uptick of COVID-19 Worldwide, says WHO

    Misinformation that the pandemic is over and other factors like the lifting of mask mandates and ending physical distancing – exaggerated by a more...
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    Tribal women: Enveloped by TRIPS, the Pandemic, and a History of Neglect

    Gender inequality is a perverse form of discrimination which undermines women’s identity and agency and deprives them of their rights. This extends to women,...
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