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October 11- World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on vision impairment, including blindness. This year, World Sight Day will take place on October 14, 2021 with the theme: Love…
October 07- -Aly Alias Stephen Nah No this is not a #squidgame event or scenario. There was no money, no debt involved. Just a desperate person. The date was 13 June 2003. I was flipping a coin to decide if I should end my…
July 05- Human Rights Measurement Initiative has published a detailed review of human rights situation across the world, excerpts are here: In February and March 2021, surveyed human rights practitioners in 39 countries1 about the state of human rights in their country…
June 23- Songs have always chronicled social, political, historic, geographical, cultural and environmental change. Many popular singers have responded to the climate crisis – Billie Eilish with All the Good Girls Go to Hell, Kelly Lee Owens with Melt!, Anohni with 4 Degrees, to name…
June 22- Newsreel docuseries on the COVID19 Second Wave in India. What are Hospitals Trying to Hide? A report from Meerut Medical College Episode 1 of ‘The Second Wave,’ a docuseries by Surabhi Singh and Abhishek Yadav. Courtesy: Newsreel
June 10- Prakash Amatya, Nepal representative of an award-winning toilet model, explains what still stands in the way of improved sanitation One of Aerosan Toilets’ four public toilets in the Kathmandu valley (Image: Aerosan Toilets) Open defecation is a major issue in…
June 06- It deeply hurts to see people suffer from and die of causes which could have been greatly curbed and avoided. So, I was moved to make every effort to contribute in that direction, with all my experience and background in…
June 03- Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich Source: (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) For over one year, big tech companies like Twitter and Facebook have censored credible stories, sources, information and discussion about the potential that Wuhan coronavirus came from gain-of-function experiments in a Chinese…
May 21- During this lockdown pandemic, people need a positive mindset and a loving environment than anything else. Asha Nepal, an entity dedicated to serving women and children, has come up with a creative idea to share their how-about, and instill positivity …
May 1- It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain by Arundhati Roy During a particularly polarising…