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  Text of South Centre Statement To The World Health Assembly (WHA) 73 Session Item 13

  21 November

  The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that, despite the magnitude of the global health challenges it has to face, the WHO is currently unable to fully enforce its directives, norms and standards. It also shows that its funding is neither sustainable nor adequate to respond effectively to current and future global health crises. Overreliance on voluntary targeted funding puts at risk its capacity to operate as the global agency responsible for public health. These are some of the main challenges facing the WHO today.

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  Text of Statement by UN Special Rapporteurs on Universal Access to Vaccines for Prevention and Containment of COVID-19 | Nov 9, 2020

  21 November
  9 November 2020
  To date, there have been more than 49 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 1.2 million deaths reported to WHO.1 This disease continues to prove more deadly than anticipated while the world carries on facing the cumulative  (...)

• Health Budgets of Developing Countries in COVID Times | Bharat Dogra

  21 November, by Bharat Dogra
  Many developing countries including India had highly inadequate health budgets even before the COVID-19 phase. Now there are very critical questions of maintaining all essential health services and meeting all essential expenses in the middle of  (...)

• Learning in the Midst of Adverse Situation in Assam: Experience from the Covid-19 Pandemic | Nurul Hassan

  21 November
  by Nurul Hassan *
  Abstract
  The World has been facing unprecedented crisis due to Covid-19 pandemic. The Corona induced indecisive disruption makes the entire system vulnerable one. Most of the sectors are favouring new orientation in terms  (...)

• Agriculture: Area Planning - A way-out to ensure the MSPs | Sher Singh Sangwan

  21 November
  by Sher Singh Sangwan
  A review of the minimums support prices (MSPs) of agricultural commodities in India reveals that whenever their prices were subdued, the farmers were in distress (1). It happened around 1990, the year of 1st All India  (...)

• Political Misrule and Alienation amongst the Kashmiris - a long story | Humra Quraishi

  21 November, by Humra Quraishi
  IMPRESSIONS - November 18 , 2020
  As the friction accelerates between the Centre and the Kashmiri leaders in the Kashmir Valley, how I wish two veteran journalists were still around, in our midst. After all, Nikhil Chakravartty and Ajit  (...)

• Equality Before the Law | Badri Raina

  21 November, by Badri Raina
  Equality before the law Is a fine idea, But propagated unequally By an unequal media.
  And judges are wise not to speak In mechanical voice; Justice demands that lordships weigh Who stacks the dice.
  Most citizens know their place In the scheme of  (...)

• No New Words | L K Sharma

  21 November
  by LK Sharma
  Social Distancing!
  Two Words signify Two Worlds Two Faces.
  Two Words. Not new to me. Inherited these.
  These are in my blood. I distance myself from the Other, instinctively.
  These got engraved in my mind as I saw Dalits and  (...)

• Public Perception Replacing Political Ideology | Arun Srivastava

  21 November
  by Arun Srivastava
  Refusing to be sworn in as the next chief minister of Bihar unless the LJP is dismembered and Chirag Paswan is sacked from the NDA, the JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar has put the BJP leadership, especially Narendra Modi in a piquant  (...)

• Impact of 2020 by-election results in Karnataka on the Political Parties | P. S. Jayaramu

  21 November
  by P. S. Jayaramu
  Results of the by-elections in Karnataka are out. The BJP has emerged victorious in both the R R Nagar constituency in Bangalore and Sira in Tumkur district. The results call for an analysis of the impact of the by-polls on  (...)

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