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Why a Human Rights-Based Approach Is Crucial to Dealing with the Global Pandemic

Sandra Liebenberg 09/10/2020

While restrictions on civil and political liberties may be...

FILE PHOTO: Medical staff with protective clothing are seen inside a ward specialised in receiving any person who may have been infected with coronavirus, at the Rajiv Ghandhi Government General hospital in Chennai

By Neglecting Public Health, Govts in India Have Abandoned Their Responsibility

V. Gopala Gowda and Gunjan Jena 19/08/2020

The coronavirus crisis has exposed the weaknesses in the...

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SC Asks Centre, CBI, and Five States to Respond to Plea Against Illegal Sand Mining

The plea has alleged that illegal sand mining across...

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Explained: Why Healthcare Reforms Should Be an Election Issue in 2019

Anoo Bhuyan 26/02/2019

Experts want the public health system to be “democratised"...

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To Be a Functional Democracy, India Needs to Reclaim Its Primary Healthcare

Pavitra Mohan 28/10/2018

How do we reclaim health care that is for...

Rabab Ali, with her younger brother. Credits: Qazi Ali Athar

Seven-Year-Old Sues Pakistan Government Over Climate Change

Zofeen T. Ebrahim 12/07/2016

Girl claims plans to develop dirty coal deposits will...