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    In Sri Lanka, Rajapaksas on the Ropes

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

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    From the Coronavirus to the Arbovirus: WHO launches bid to stop a new pandemic

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    SouthAsia Schools Stayed Shut 35 weeks, Says UNESCO

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

    In the best-case scenario, less severe variants emerge and boosters or new formulations of vaccines won’t be necessary. But, in the worst-case scenario, a...
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    Discrimination, Debt and Depression: Delhi’s Transgender people through COVID-19

    A sense of trepidation hung wordlessly in the air as volunteers milled around corridors when Aarohan’s doors reopened for staff, volunteers and members of...
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    Time Running Out to Address Afghanistan’s Hunger Crisis; Without a Functioning Central Bank, Aid Not Enough

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