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    UN Expert Warns Afghan Children Face Irreversible Harm from Overlapping Crises and Taliban Restrictions

    Restrictions on education and freedoms, combined with chronic poverty and lack of future opportunities, have fuelled high levels of distress.
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    Finance and Economy

    World Bank Backs Sri Lanka Tourism Push with $200 Million Loan and National Strategy

    The coming months will see intensive stakeholder engagement, infrastructure planning and institutional strengthening.
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    Accountability

    Sri Lanka: Families of the Disappeared Still Seek Answers After Decades of Waiting

    For the thousands still waiting, progress measured in interviews completed or payments disbursed feels painfully slow.
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    Accountability

    Nepal’s Deadly Glacier Floods: A Climate Wake-Up Call as Death Toll Tops 1,000

    In a heating world, communities on the climate frontline cannot be left waiting years for the resources they need to survive.
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    Accountability

    Pakistan: Activists Demand Probe Into Alleged Demolition of Century-old Hindu Temple in Punjab

    Rights groups continue to press for transparent investigations, reconstruction where warranted, and stronger safeguards so that historic places of worship are not erased regardless of the current demographic composition of surrounding communities.
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    Agriculture

    Simultaneous Global Droughts Could Triple Wheat Prices Under 3°C Warming

    Low-income households, which spend a disproportionate share of income on basic staples, face the greatest risk.
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    Air

    UN Warns World Will Breach 1.5°C Climate Limit Within Years, Urges Path to Limit and Reverse Overshoot

    Every fraction of a degree and every year avoided above 1.5°C matters for lives, ecosystems, economies and the feasibility of recovery.
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    Climate change

    Desperate Race Against Time: Mud-Choked Hydro Tunnels Hold Hundreds of Missing Workers

    The scale of the challenge has made this one of the most complex rescue efforts in Nepal’s recent history.
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    Bangladesh’s Rape Response System on Brink as 373 Crisis Workers Go Unpaid for Nine Months

    The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs continues to insist that recruitment will be completed “shortly.” Until then, 373 unpaid workers remain the thin line between Bangladesh’s formal commitment to protect survivors of rape and the practical reality of a system under severe strain.
    Civil society

    Channels of Courage: How Sri Lanka’s Newest Literary Anthology Is Amplifying Fresh Voices

    Channels 2026 does not claim to define the nation’s writing. Instead, it opens another channel for stories that might otherwise remain private.
    Disaster Management

    Pakistan Records Sharpest Quarterly Rise in Violence Since 2021 as Fatalities Surge 83%

    The data underscore a central reality of contemporary South Asia: insecurity in one corner of the region rarely remains contained.

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    Bangladesh’s Rape Response System on Brink as 373 Crisis Workers Go Unpaid for Nine Months

    The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs continues to insist that recruitment will be completed “shortly.” Until then, 373 unpaid workers remain the thin line between Bangladesh’s formal commitment to protect survivors of rape and the practical reality of a system under severe strain.
    Civil society

    Channels of Courage: How Sri Lanka’s Newest Literary Anthology Is Amplifying Fresh Voices

    Channels 2026 does not claim to define the nation’s writing. Instead, it opens another channel for stories that might otherwise remain private.
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