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The Degrading Treatment of Kashmiri Refugee Women,Children & Men In #AzadKashmir
More than 42000 refugees from the Indian-occupied Kashmir struggle to survive in AJK. They live in 13 #slums where a #humanitarian tragedy has been unfolding over the decades.
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There’s no clean drinking water there, and all settlements reek of a foul smell due to the absence of sewerage system.
And they are overcrowded. Tens of individuals are forced to sleep in every room/tent of a shelter.Each shelter has one room, one washroom and a kitchen.
So parents and their grown up children have been living in that single room for 34 years. That’s where they eat their meals, and students among them do their homework while others are trying to sleep.
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Karnataka HC will shortly hear a case registered suo motu after the Court received two letters on Covid-19 Management in the state.

#CovidIndia
#COVIDSecondWave
Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar will hear the matter.

#CovidIndia
Bench assembles.

What is the process of distribution of oxygen in the State: Bench

#COVID19
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#Myanmar #Yangon #Coronavirus #Slums #chaos

According to reports, the second wave witch hit Myanmar bad again causes massive problems to the poor poopulatin of Myanmar with makes a third ot the total 53 million residents. Many people sold everything they had to affort food.
Myanmar has 43,788 total infections and 1066 Coivd-19 related deaths. People in the slums of Myanmar starting to eat everything possible like rats, or even going to hunt. Estimated numbers say that in the devolping country up to 38 million people could be pushed into poverty.
The goverment garante the poors 3 pay checks of $15 each. 40% of all households recivdd goverment aid but many workplaces were shut down. Also the first time in 20 years Myanmar will face a increase of poverty.
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#Webinar | @jaffrelotc (@CERI_SciencesPo), Dr Ajay Mathur (@teriin), @VaidehiTandel & @SebastienTreyer discuss the economic, social and environmental impact of #COVID19 on #India, today, 3pm IST.

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@IDDRI_ThinkTank’s ‘Between a rock and a hard place: Economic, social and environmental impact of #Covid19 on #India’ is live now on YouTube:
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.@jaffrelotc: "The present #crisis is making visible the impact of decades of growth without #development based on growing #inequality" @CERI_SciencesPo
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Dear Mr. Praveen Pardeshi, #Municipal #Commissioner, @mybmc Sir we are going through tough times and to cease the #coronavirus in #slums of #Mumbai there's a need for #MCGM & #Maharashtra #Government to vigorously work with Community Based Organisations (#CBOs) @OfficeofUT (cont)
There are 1200 plus #CBOs in #Mumbai formed under the #Slum #sanitation Program of #MCGM. @CMOMaharashtra if #BMC could appoint one nodal NGO/CBO who are experts in Sanitation, through nodal #NGO government/companies could find it easy to reach the CBOs & their communities (cont)
with various welfare packages and would also find easy to detect the affected person easily because #CBOs are formed for caretaking the community toilets and welfare of the community, they have the list of families who are the beneficiaries of the toilet and are also aware (cont)
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Today, I will try my hand at live tweeting insights from "A #Home of One's Own", a two-day #researchworkshop on socially & economically #marginalised women's experiences of and negotiations with #genderinequalities in #informalurbanhousing in India.
This workshop has been organised by #JadavpurUniversity (School of Women's Studies), #RabindraBharathiUniversity (Centre for Women's Studies) and #Parichiti, a women's organisation. All three are research partners on a #GCRF project funded by @GoldsmithsUoL.
Since Oct 2018, I have collaborated with Dr. Henrike Donner, who is leading it, to develop #researchcollaborations with #educational and #development organisations in India to implement a pilot study on #genderurbanhousing. This workshop marks the end of the first phase.
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