Let us refresh the old gold Buddhist tale of The Quail and the Net: “Long ago a flock of quails lived in a forest. Everyday a hunter would cast a net and trap many of them. But eventually, a wise quail told the rest that if they worked together, they could lift the net coll

Health and gender equality are indivisible and fundamental human rights. "Right to health cannot be dislocated from gender equality and human rights. We have to ensure that gender equality and human right to health are recognised as fundamental human rights in all countries,

While governments have committed to deliver on Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, inequalities, injustices and deadly divide between the Global North and Global South nations (and within rich and poor nations) has jeopardised progress on SDG goals and targets – including gender equality

Recent funding cuts on health, gender equality and human rights have given a sudden blow to a range of important services for the most underserved communities. But solution is not as simple as suggesting low- and middle-income countries to increase ‘domestic investment on health and gender&

Presently two countries the USA and India are having enmity ( some rational and some irrational) against China. The USA because TRump-administration is in a state of tariff / economic war against China ( https://apnews.com/article/tariff-china-united-states-timeline-b9ade8491a16f68282ad65539

An important declaration adopted last week calls upon the governments of the world to accelerate the implementation of all measures under the global tobacco treaty in order to end the tobacco epidemic. Among other actions, it urges countries to: "Recognise the tobacco industry as the biggest

Whether India becomes a member in this new organization or not which China, Pakistan and Bangladesh are trying to launch  to create a regional grouping to replace SAARC, as reported at  

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/china-pakistan-bangladesh-meeting-regional-seek

The question of regime change in Iran has recently resurfaced after the killing of Iran’s top military commanders following the Israeli airstrikes. However, Israel’s short-term goal was to damage Iran’s nuclear facilities to severely diminish its weapons program

Although world is not on track to end AIDS by 2030 but it is no less than a miracle when we take into account the scientific and community-led progress which has powered the global AIDS response since 1981 - when for the first time AIDS was reported in the world. 

 In lead up

"When human rights are treated like an 'à la carte menu' by governments, and not what they truly are - indivisible, foundational and unconditional... we move fast into dystopia," said Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Right To Health. 

The “new rule based Global  order” led by Islam  has become necessary because the US-Christianity is not interested in launching and running it.  

Though Prez Trump (in his address  and tweets of June 21) tried to tell the people  as to what are

"We need to design services around people, not the disease," rightly said Dr Nittaya Phanuphak. Unless point-of-care health technologies are deployed for those who are most-in-need in a person-centred and rights-based manner, we would fail to deliver on the promises enshrined in #Health

Legalising key population or community-led health services has been a gamechanger in Thailand to protect most-at-risk people from getting infected with HIV, as well as to take evidence-based standard care to the people living with HIV in a person-centred manner so that they can lead normal health

Pakistan, with its historical verifiable and social tradition of strict diversity, is faced with enormous challenges in promoting interfaith harmony. Although there are promises by God to ensure interfaith harmony, strict minorities are constantly exposed to simple segregation and savagery. This

Though the Americans are concerned that -[when the U.S. and Iran were discussing a deal that would have Iran scale down its nuclear program in exchange for the U.S. to lift sanctions, which have crippled Iran's economy, on the evening of June 12, Israel launched a series of major strikes agai