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    Amazon Workers Win First-Ever Union

    The victory has major implications for the success of the organizing efforts in other Amazon warehouses around the United States, besides inspiring workers at...
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    In Sri Lanka, Rajapaksas on the Ropes

    With the economy in freefall and basics such as food and fuel in dangerously short supply, there is mounting public anger against a failing...
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    SouthAsia Schools Stayed Shut 35 weeks, Says UNESCO

    School closures in SouthAsia have long-term implications for its learners. Current learners in South Asia could stand to lose near a trillion dollars in...
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    Afghanistan’s Girls’ Education is a Women’s Rights Issue

    The right to education has been an oft-discussed, critical human rights issue for Afghanistan, especially when it comes to how, or even if, this...
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    Disproportionate military crackdowns in Myanmar

    The UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet, said that Myanmar's military forces are committing human rights violations with the impunity that they perpetrated four years ago...
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    Taliban, Chinese Mining Conglomerate, to Discuss Copper Mining in Logar Province

    A deal signed in 2008 with the previous US-backed government, but it came to a standstill after a Taliban-led attack. By Maliha Safi A Chinese delegation...
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    Taliban Resurrect Gender Segregation in Public Places

    Immediately upon taking power, the Taliban ordered that women need not to return to work. They have enforced strict segregation in universities, government offices...
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    India

    Social security for gig workers of Uber, Ola still a distant dream

    Drivers are saddled with the burden of repaying their loans and the deduction of commissions. Low earnings, the ratings game and algorithm-driven systems need...
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    World Bank Unveils $1 Billion Package to Spur Jobs and Private Sector Growth in Sri Lanka

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