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More and more people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water.

Good News

Progress in drinking water supply and disease control

The two pieces of good news this month are about more people gaining access to safe drinking water and four countries being declared free of the neglected tropical disease trachoma.

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The parliament building in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, was set on fire during the protests in September.

Opinion

Nepal can change for the better

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by Rukamanee Maharjan
A mural on a wall at Punjab University in Lahore depicts the burden placed on the poor to sustain the lifestyle of the elite.

Social sector

Pakistan’s social divide

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by Abdur Rehman Cheema
Sonami Baski.

Indigenous voices

“If all that is lost, then I am lost”

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by Sonami Baski
by Ipil Monica Baski
The 2022 floodings in Pakistan are con- sidered the worst in the country’s history.

Adaptation

Despite disaster, climate action is lacking

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by Syed Muhammad Abubakar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (left) during an election campaign tour in Ayodhya in support of BJP candidate Lallu Singh (right).

Hate speech

The ecosystem of hate

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee

Public health

India’s manual scavengers still face serious caste-based exploitation

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by Ipil Monica Baski
Indian paramilitary soldiers cordon off an area in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir after an unknown aircraft crushed near the city of Srinagar on 8 May.

Kashmir conflict

Authoritarian forces on the rise

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by Muhammad Nawfal Saleemi
Filipino journalist and Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa is a champion of freedom of expression.

Civil-society organisations

Fighting the weaponisation of anti-fake news laws

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by Sangeeta Mahapatra 
by Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
by Andreas Ufen
India’s President Droupadi Murmu.

Head of state

The ambivalent role of India’s president

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by Arun P. Ghosh
A domestic help in India. It is not Reba.

Informal sector

“I just want my son to study well and then live a better life than I do”

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by Roli Mahajan