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Human trafficking threats continue to grow

by Hritika Sharma in Nepalnews, Mar 15, 2023The National Human Rights Commission’s data estimates that more than a million Nepalis are vulnerable to human trafficking. Economic necessities, illegal migration, lack of awareness, and insufficient implementation of the Anti-Human trafficking law provide feasibility for human traffickers to operate throughout Nepal. Nepal’s Human Rights Commission report reveals how thousands of women and girls are trafficked from Nepal in a single year. Nepal’s open border with India also…

Sri Lanka tea output falls to 26-year low on interventionist state

report in ECONOMYNEXT, January 24, 2023 6:50 am– Sri Lanka’s tea output fell to a 26 year low of 251.5 million kilograms as the urban intelligentsia tried to create an interventionist state and banned chemical fertilizer. Chemical fertilizer was banned on the advice of the Government Medical Officers Association, whose boss said ancient Sri Lankans lived for over a century before chemical fertilizers were invented. Tea output fell 16 percent or 48 million kilograms in…

Hell hath no fury…

by Abbas Nasir in Dawn, January 22nd, 2023The writer is a former editor of Dawn.WHO wouldn’t be tempted to endorse an Imran Khan-like stance to burn the house down, in the face of the paralysis that our dysfunctional state and its rotten-to-the-core system has come to represent, as millions of Pakistanis struggle to put food on the table. Look at the state of the economy and the dithering that has been the main characteristic of…