Considering the fact that all the South Asian member states are highly prone to hydro-meteorological and geological hazards such as floods, landslides, droughts, cyclones, earthquakes, heat waves, avalanches and tsunamis, the topic will bring into attention the issues relating to disaster, the aftermath and the adopted policies and dealings. When it comes to the economic vulnerability countries such as Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh illustrates the largest losses, where poverty exposed population and absence of preparedness can be accredited to the susceptibility to the disasters precipitated by natural hazards.
Nature is giving us another chance so let us avoid the trap of intellectual-sounding ideas and focus on more fundamental and granular aspects - the most important one being to simply understand each other better. ...
The Japan Times states that the social distancing measures might be essential until 2022 to reduce persistent outbreak following the initial wave. Whatever situation arises during the Coronavirus phase, Japan has enough competence to manage it at national level. However, it can be said with some certainty that in the future, COVID-19 would damage the Japanese position of being advanced country, internationally ...
The need of the hour is a more cohesive pan-European response to COVID-19, requiring the UK government to abandon its ideological hostility towards the EU. The European solidarity, and the proactive engagements among members countries, can set an example for international cooperation everywhere in the world ...
At time when high income countries around the world are occupied with their own numbers, peripheral countries like Nepal are left with very limited or the only option like WHO. Nepal, needs WHO to help ensure the right kind of resources to be brought to bear, for consistently and effectively meeting the needs of the people who are already vulnerable and are further likely to be much more vulnerable as the result of the pandemic ...
Vietnam’s response to the crisis has earned praise from the World Health Organization. The official statistics clearly exhibit that there are currently more than 75,000 people in quarantine or isolation. ...
Widespread test covering maximum infected people can be one of the solutions. Government is trying to ease the lock down and allows industries, by maintaining appropriate measures. Appropriate measures must be taken strictly by the industry managements as well ...
We should not blame disasters on nature. Disasters emerge from society’s actions. So, we should prefer not to use the term “natural disaster”. Instead, they are simply, “disasters” ...
The need of the hour for Afghanistan is support from the international community and regional cooperation to address the challenges faced by the war affected country. To begin with, violence in any form should stop in Afghanistan, and both, the civilian government and Taliban should ensure a peaceful environment in the country ...
It will be difficult for Myanmar to escape the economic and social shocks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Myanmar would need to be more careful in preventing the spread of the Coronavirus in the densely populated camps of the Rohingya population, and other areas across the country, to stop the unmanageable catastrophe and a public health emergency ...
Sex Workers in Bangladesh: Tales of Destitution amidst the Pandemic
The structural violence and stigma faced by sex workers in normal times itself, is humongous, and this multiplies in the crises that have been created by a health disaster. The need of the hour is to absorb the capacities and energies of sex workers within societal structures, so as to give them enough opportunity to sustain themselves ...