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    Tackling the Pandemic of Inequality in Asia and the Pacific

    Amid continuing uncertainty over when the pandemic will finally be behind us, the one certainty for the region’s policymakers is that the benefits of...
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    Civil society

    The Dangers of Defending Women Accused of Sorcery in Papua New Guinea

    Human rights defenders are often targeted when they assist a survivor of sorcery accusation-related violence because they are seen as interfering in a customary...
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    Afghanistan

    Neighbours Prodded Taliban to Ensure Rights While UN ‘Pledgers’ Spoke of Taliban’s Track Record

    The UN conference spoke of the Taliban’s order extending the closure of girls’ secondary schools. Simultaneously, at a parallel conference held in China, neighbouring...
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    Child Labour

    ‘Decisive Steps’ Needed to Keep Boys in School, says UNESCO report

    The need to bring girls to school is as important as retaining boys in school. A UNESCO report attempts to answer why boys are...
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    COVID-19

    Researchers Document Profound Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Girls in Asia-Pacific

    A research by the Joint Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has documented the impact of the...
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    Children

    Women, Children Fleeing Ukraine Vulnerable to Human Trafficking

    Local and international humanitarian organisations have warned women and children fleeing Ukraine are vulnerable to trafficking and gender-based violence within and outside the country...
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    COVID-19

    Discrimination, Debt and Depression: Delhi’s Transgender people through COVID-19

    A sense of trepidation hung wordlessly in the air as volunteers milled around corridors when Aarohan’s doors reopened for staff, volunteers and members of...
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    Afghanistan

    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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