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Ethiopia’s Civil Society at a Crossroads: Reform or Reversal?
The Civil Societies Proclamation No. 1113/2019 (the “2019 Proclamation”) marked a clear legal break with Ethiopia’s repressive 2009 Charities and Societies regime and reopened...
Court Rejects Zhanna Shamalova’s Bid for Legal Motherhood in Custody Case
The billionaire's ex-wife fought for custody of their daughter, who was born via a surrogate mother. According to a Russian court ruling, the couple's...
Who Deserves to Reproduce? The Dangerous Logic Behind Conditional Welfare
The statement by West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi (popularly known as Kang Dedi Mulyadi or KDM) concerning the plan to make vasectomy, or male...
Unleashing Human Inventiveness in the Post-AI Era
We are already living in the world where AI is a multitasker, not just a top-up. It has become an essential part of several...
Correcting a silent injustice: ensuring every birth and death is recorded and every life is counted
Ten years ago, countries across Asia and the Pacific united to correct a silent injustice: millions of people were being born and dying without...
Beyond the Binary: Gender Roles and the Diplomacy of Open Minds
The Personal and the Spiritual
In a world that is increasingly interconnected, how we understand and respond to gender roles is more than a cultural...
Frailty is no more the name of woman
Kristalina Georgieva started her second term as the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2024. She stands as a crucial example,...
Superpower in Denial: A Broken Model of Growth
'Numbers don't lie,' but certainly deceive in India. Behind every celebration of prosperity is a harsher reality of exclusion, injustice, and hunger. This isn't simply...
Asia in Transition: Demographic Challenges, Social Transformation, and the Urgency of a New Social Contract
Asia, the world’s most populous and dynamic continent, is undergoing an unprecedented demographic transformation. Population aging, internal and international migration, rapid urbanization, and the...
This Isn’t a Flaw in the System—It Is the System
We live in a world where racism isn’t just a set of isolated incidents but a pervasive thread woven through every major system and...