“COVID In Her Voice: A Girl-led and Centred Participatory Research Study” also found girls spent longer hours on household chores and lacked tools to continue school education online.
The US Treasury said Taiwan, along with Vietnam and Switzerland, have engaged in market interventions to keep their currencies undervalued in the department’s semiannual foreign exchange report, but stopped short of naming them currency manipulators.
The new interim cabinet was formed by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, a shadow parliament working underground to topple the coup regime.
Publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying wasjailed for 14 months for his role in two illegal protests during Hong Kong’s anti-government unrest in 2019, while four former opposition lawmakers were also sent to prison.
The Secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said that canceling the Tokyo Games “is still an option,” a rare admission by a top official that has cast further doubt upon the postponed sporting event.
Myanmar security forces arrested one of the main leaders of the campaign against military rule after ramming him with a car as he led a motorbike protest rally, friends and colleagues said.
John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, is pressing China to do more to address global warming. But he faces an emboldened Beijing leadership that thinks the United States has lagged behind.
Russian Ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev, while stressing both countries’ commitment to their contract for the S-400 missile system, warned India of “a revival of the Cold War-era thinking and Cold War-era structures.”