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    Bangladesh

    South Asian Women, Girls Need Responsive Legal System to Gender Violence

    Long delays in medical examinations, police investigations, prosecutions, and trials are widespread. Survivors often have difficulties filing cases with the police and face community...
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    Climate change

    Women’s Lives Get Harder in Bundelkhand as Water Scarcity Grows

    Up to 70 per cent of women in parts of the drought-prone region in central India are affected by acute water shortages, according to...
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    Empowerment

    Pakistan: Ten Baby Steps by Lawmakers Promise Working Women a Giant Leap

    Pakistan’s home-based women workers face some of the most challenging working conditions and remain highly vulnerable to exploitation and discrimination, says a recent World...
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    COVID-19

    ILO-WHO Global Study on Gender Pay Gap in Health and Care Sector Silent on India

    Lower wages and discrimination come out as important features of the challenges women employed in the health and care face, according to an ILO...
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    Accountability

    Jobs Will Not Empower Young Women Until We Address Sexual Harassment

    Local authorities are often men who often dismiss their cases, blame the women, or telling them to be ‘forgiving’. Young women and their families...
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    Civil society

    A Look at Democracy in Pakistan –  Part II

    The earlier article, following a talk at Islamabad’s National Institute of Pakistan Studies, put an academic lens on understanding the nexus between Pakistan’s powerful...
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    Civil society

    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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    Afghanistan

    Taliban: The Return of Misogynistic Gynophobes in Afghanistan

    The Taliban’s priority is not saving the economy and the country from these disasters. Instead, it didn’t take too long for the fundamentalist group...
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    Employment

    Unpaid Burden: Sri Lanka’s Women Work 8.5 Months a Year for Free

    Experts advocate treating care as essential social infrastructure. Expanding services, redistributing unpaid work through policy, and challenging norms that sideline educated women could unlock significant gains.
    Bangladesh

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    Agriculture

    Thali Costs Climb in June on Vegetable and Fuel Price Surge, says CRISIL

    June 2026’s thali cost increases highlight the interplay of domestic weather, global supply issues, and structural factors in India’s food inflation.
    Employment

    Unpaid Burden: Sri Lanka’s Women Work 8.5 Months a Year for Free

    Experts advocate treating care as essential social infrastructure. Expanding services, redistributing unpaid work through policy, and challenging norms that sideline educated women could unlock significant gains.
    Finance and Economy

    Sri Lanka Targets Poverty Eradication: Aswesuma Programme Set for Phase-Out by 2030

    Launched in 2023 amid the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic turmoil, Aswesuma represented a targeted overhaul of the country’s social protection system.
    Agriculture

    Thali Costs Climb in June on Vegetable and Fuel Price Surge, says CRISIL

    June 2026’s thali cost increases highlight the interplay of domestic weather, global supply issues, and structural factors in India’s food inflation.
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