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Bangladesh Flood Victims Cry for Relief

Authorities claim that the flood situation is getting back normal. But voluntary organisations complain that the pace of relief distribution has been slow despite...

Inter Press Service - 29 June 2022

Accountability

Civil Society Holding the Line in Contested Times: 2022 CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report

Current crises are exposing the inadequacies of the international governance system, says CIVICUS in its annual report on the State of Civil Society. The...

OWSA Staff - 28 June 2022

Accountability

Private Sector Employment: Do Gatekeepers Indeed Believe in Equal Opportunities?

As if it is a comment on the times we live in, the fictitious Hindu woman job applicant named Priyanka Sharma received 208 positive...

OWSA Staff - 28 June 2022

E-governance

G7’s ‘Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment’ is a Repackaged Form of ‘Build Back Better World’

The plan is to wean countries and governments away from China's Belt and Road Initiative that provides financing for infrastructure like ports, roads and...

OWSA Contributor - 28 June 2022

Disaster risk reduction

Grim Situation in Assam Following Floods

54 lives have been lost due to the floods across the state since the monsoon season began on 6 April. Assam’s Brahmaputra valley is...

OWSA Staff - 27 June 2022

Climate change

Droughts in the 6th Century Could Have Paved the Way for Islam

“It was a bit like a murder case: we have a dead kingdom and we're looking for the culprit. Step by step, the evidence has...

OWSA Contributor - 27 June 2022

Health

Relief: Monkeypox Not a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, Says WHO

The Emergency Committee pointed out that disease has been circulating in a number of African countries for decades and has been neglected in terms...

OWSA Contributor - 27 June 2022

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...

OWSA Contributor - 26 June 2022

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