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Agriculture
First Person: Farmers running out of water in Punjab, India
For farmers in the Punjab region of India, water shortages are a harsh reality. Here, three rice cultivators talk about the challenges they face...
Global Governance
S Jaishankar’s UN Day Message Reiterates India’s Support for Global South
UN Secretary General António Guterres described the UN as “the product of hope” because it embodies the hope and resolve to move beyond global conflict, to...
Accreditation
UN Bans NGOs During High-Level Meetings of World Leaders— Triggering Strong Protests
It is a lost opportunity for the UN and state diplomatic delegations to interact freely with civil society representatives who bring with them a...
Climate change
Putting Water on the Agenda at Egypt’s COP27
Water looks set to be the key theme at COP27 as host country Egypt, ‘motivated to push for action’ plans to launch a water...
Asia Pacific
China Must Address Grave Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang, Say Rights Experts
The statement of the 40 independent experts comes in the wake of the recent publication of a long-awaited report by the UN human rights...
Accountability
Human Rights Defenders Write to Guterres; Say Next OHCHR Must be a Rights Champion
The post of High Commissioner should be filled by someone of high moral standing and personal integrity, and who is independent and impartial and...
Asia Pacific
This is 2022 and Iran is Set to ‘Finger Guillotine’
A sawing contraption will cut off four fingers of the right hands of seven men convicted of burglary in Tehran. But the medieval form...
Forced disappearances
Death Sentences in Myanmar
Governments and civil society from across the world have called for dropping plans for the executions urged on the international community to step up...
Latest news
Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is high enough not to allow microfinance to bring about any...
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Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is putting people at risk. So are populations in the alluvial...
Human Society is Making the Mistake of Forgetting the Importance of Forests: President Droupadi Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu said that she was confident that the officers of the Indian Forest Service had become completely...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is...
Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is...
