‘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.
Janakpur Handicraft: Weaving a Better Future in Rural Nepal
Janakpur Handicraft Centre supports economically backward women in Nepal by giving them training, employment and other opportunities to get empowered.
Unconventional responses to unconventional time – Lessons from the Indian state of Kerala’s successful...
Timely interventions and health actions are not the only aspects that enabled the Kerala model of COVID-19 response to be unique. It focused a lot on preparing Kerala as a society to face this adverse condition by building people’s trust in its health system.
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...
José Manuel Ramos-Horta: “We resisted the temptation of violence”
"We never resorted to extremist tactics like kidnapping and killing innocent civilians; we had a very strict code of conduct that never allowed us to descend to the barbarity of the other side", says José Manuel Ramos-Horta, a freedom fighter, Timor-Leste's ex-president and a Nobel laureate.
Skills-based volunteering: The sustainable option for training grassroots NGOs
CDV Global (Community Development Volunteer Global) is a UK based company that provides pro-bono training and development to these grassroots NGOs through skills-based volunteering programmes.
Six Things to Know About Basic Income and Gender Equity: Lessons From India
By Marion Sharples
While certainly not being a one-stop fix-all solution, the progress that was made under a small-scale, temporary pilot should energise feminist advocates of basic income and serve as an inspiration for future work. The positive impact of basic income on poverty levels, women's self-respect, increased social inclusion and reduced scope for exploitation is greatly inspiring.
“Democracy In Sri Lanka is Fake”
When it comes to socio-economic development, Sri Lanka is taken as a remarkable example in south Asia. That development, however, is not equitable and...
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.
Child Marriages In Bangladesh: Will There Ever Be An End?
Child marriages in Bangladesh are still a sad reality, despite several efforts from different organizations for decades. Will it ever end anyway?
