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Civil society
No infrastructure planning can match civil society led collective action
Policy makers and planners must acknowledge people's action and take these into account in their planning efforts. People’s action can do wonders. The case...
Child Rights
The future of an entire generation hangs in the balance
COVID-19 has upended our world, threatening our health, destroying economies and livelihoods, and deepening poverty and inequalities. It also created the single largest disruption...
Civil society
Are cops ready for Jharkhand’s new anti-mob lynching law?
Four years since the court’s judgement, Jharkhand is only the fourth state (after Manipur, Rajasthan and West Bengal) to have passed a legislation to...
Civil society
Public health emergencies are our past, our present, and we will face them again
Never before has the need for a localised approach to crises been so evident.
Jagan Chapagain
As we end this year, I would like to pay...
Afghanistan
An infuriating, man-made catastrophe points toward massive suffering for Afghan families
Children are in need of emergency aid. They are hungry. The anguish on the parents' faces cannot hide their desperation. Such is the situation...
Afghanistan
Open Letter to the Secretary General, Heads of UN Agencies & International Donor Community
Former UN Women staff members Rebecca Reichmann Tavares, Roberta Clarke and Meryem Aslan, together with women leaders and advocates from civil society organisations write...
Civil society
The Global Assault on Human Rights
By Ben Phillips
Human rights are under global assault. In 2021, the escalation of the worldwide siege on human rights included clampdowns on civil society...
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