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There is something inherently wrong with our national priorities if we allow Crisafulli’s LNP to prop up mining and development interests, and decide women’s reproductive choices while denying hungry children, writes managing editor Michelle Pini. IT TAKES a special type of hard heart (or is that heartless monster?) to not only disapprove of an initiative that […]
Rwandan authorities are perpetrating serious human rights abuses in detention facilities, including torturing inmates, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, denouncing a lack of accountability for those responsible. Under President Paul Kagame’s three-decade rule, political dissent and free speech have been crushed, with international campaigners long decrying the shrinking civil rights space in the small east […]
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Myanmar has never ranked highly in global gender equality tables, but improvements were made during the reform years. The United Nations says patterns of abuse and gender-based violence have definitely worsened since the military coup. In this feature, we profile a women’s rights defender who says women must play a meaningful role in building a […]
The General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) in Cambodia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance launched a trial phase of its Intellectual Property Rights Recordation System (IPRRS) on September 1, 2024. The system compiles necessary information and documents related to intellectual property rights in the country, enabling customs authorities to swiftly access these documents and […]
The Shan Plateau near Kalaw. Photo: David Stanley Since the majority of people in Myanmar are employed in agriculture, MCRB initially planned to conduct a Sector Wide Impact Assessment (SWIA) on agriculture as one of four SWIAs, the others being Oil and Gas (2014), Tourism (2015), and ICT (2015). In 2014, MCRB and the […]
JUI-F leader questions military extensions, demands same rights for parliament | The Express Tribune
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman has strongly criticised the practice of granting extensions to military officials, calling it a “flawed” policy that should apply equally to parliament. Addressing the National Assembly, he recalled how past military extensions were pushed through under pressure and questioned why such a privilege is not extended to lawmakers. […]
General John Gordon. “Slavery is only one of the minor issues and the cause of the war, the whole cause, on our part is the maintenance of the independence of these states….neither tariffs, nor slavery, nor both together, could ever been truly called the cause of the secession…. the sovereign independence of our states. This, […]
tl;dr The Monsoon Session of Parliament came to an end on August 09, 2024, when both Houses of Parliament adjourned sine die. The Session was originally scheduled to conclude on August 12, 2024. The Session saw the introduction of 14 bills, of which 4 were passed by the Lok Sabha and 3 by the Rajya […]
tl;dr The latest Economic Survey attempts to encapsulate the state of the Indian economy over the past year, but for the most part echoes the praise for DPIs and techno-solutionism that has become commonplace for Indian leaders and government departments to push for in recent years. In this post, we look at what the survey […]