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Cyclone shelters saved lives: rural women seeking refuge on 20 May 2020.

Climate impacts

To prevent death and destruction, accept climate science

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by Saleemul Huq
by Hans Dembowski
Among the lucky few: only one quarter of Pakistan’s women has a mobile phone of their own.

Education

Digital literacy would help Pakistan’s female population

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by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi
Primary school girls in Punjab province, where the enrolment rate is comparatively good.

Women’s rights

How illiteracy perpetuates oppression of Pakistani women

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by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi
Devastating fires destroyed shelters and property in Rohingya refugee camps near the Myanmar after this comment was finalised. Investigations are still ongoing.

Human rights

Refugee suffering in Bay of Bengal and Mediterranean

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by Ridwanul Hoque
by Hans Dembowski
Always too hot or too cold: provisional post-earthquake classroom.

School quality

Nepal’s deep educational divides

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by Abishek Thapa
Children are curious and want to learn.

Schools

Eight-week module on plastic waste for school curricula

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by Mukta Martens
Learning about resin codes on plastic bottles in a Tamil Nadu government school.

Global environment

Waste less to avoid being inundated by plastic

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by Mukta Martens
The success of Kamala Harris, the first female, Black and South Asian vice president of the USA, is appreciated by women in Painganadu, the Tamil Nadu village her grandfather came from.

Migration

India’s diaspora is influential, though few members vote

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by Roli Mahajan
Destitute woman sorting plastic waste on a Karachi street.

Health hazards

In Pakistan, toxins put the poor particularly at risk

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by Imran Mukhtar
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