Women and Indian politics: gender and political participation in India
Patriarchy still posits deep-rooted challenges hindering women’s engagement with electoral politics in India. However, several steps in the country’s developmental approach have indicated a positive change in women’s participation as voters and as elected representatives.
As pandemic deaths pass 1 million, COVID-19 survivors from 37 countries write to pharmaceuticals...
Survivors of COVID-19 from 37 countries are among almost 1,000 people who have signed an open letter to pharmaceutical industry leaders calling for a ‘people's vaccine’ and treatments that are available to all.
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on SDG attainment in Afghanistan
COVID-19 has constrained many of the ongoing SDG-readying support provided to the Government of Afghanistan and may have major implications for judicious and long-term development policymaking and programming that are needed to achieve the priority SDG targets in Afghanistan.
‘Half of the world’s refugee children out of school due to COVID-19’
The risks to refugee education do not stop with COVID-19. Attacks on schools are a grim and growing reality. The report also elaborates on Africa’s Sahel region where violence has forced the closure of more than 2,500 schools affecting the education of 350,000 students.
Novartis vs India: the court will decide — New Internationalist
Generic drugs made in India are saving lives around the world. But if the country’s Supreme Court rules in favour of Big Pharma, all...
India: researchers to predict flood damage using satellite data
As India recovers from the devastating effects of cyclones Amphan and Nisarga, water researchers at HR Wallingford in the UK are developing a method...
The Branch Foundation: Supporting Sustainable Futures in South-East Asia
by Gareth Mace
Unrecognised as a people by governments or, sometimes, even the United Nations, the Karen, Karenni and Shan groups have, for decades, lived hand...
Gang Rape Cases in Afghanistan: Healing the Broken Bone
By Sayed Jalal
Of course there used to be occasional rape cases in Afghanistan, but the recent trends, in a very ugly and overt way, reveal the darker side of a traditional patriarchal society. These trends also tell us that social morality is in sharp decline. From juvenile rapes by Mullas (Religious scholar) in mosques (Masjid), to rape of daughters by fathers and animal rapes.
COVID-19 measures worsening health inequalities in slum communities, experts say
Efforts to stem the impact of COVID-19 in low to middle-income countries could be creating a health time bomb in their slum communities by deepening existing inequalities, according to an international team of health researchers led by the University of Warwick.
‘COVID-19 Threatens Decades of Progress on Gender Equality’
Decades of progress on gender equality is under threat from the COVID-19 pandemic, says aid organisation CARE.
A report released by CARE today exposes the...