Supreme Court forms National Task Force for transparent oxygen allocation
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12-member team to go beyond present crisis, prepare road map for transparent budgeting with States
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COVID-19 patients receive free oxygen provided by a Sikh organisation at Indirapuram in Ghaziabad on May 8, 2021.
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12-member team to go beyond present crisis, prepare road map for transparent budgeting with States
The Supreme Court has constituted a 12-member National Task Force to streamline and ensure the “effective and transparent” allocation of liquid medical oxygen on a “scientific, rational and equitable basis” to States and Union Territories fighting COVID-19.
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Women in Afghanistan Worry Peace Accord With Taliban Could Cost Them Hard-Won Rights
In interviews with more than 15 Afghan womenâs rights leaders, we heard frustration over womenâs exclusion from the peace talks given that women are the main victims of Afghanistanâs 40-year conflict.
Afghan men carry the coffin of one of three female media workers who were shot and killed by unknown gunmen, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan March 3, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Parwiz
These are the latest victims on a long list of assassinations and attempted assassinations of female politicians and womenâs rights activists. Such attacks have intensified since the government began peace negotiations with the Taliban militant group in September 2020. In the past year, 17 human rights defenders have been killed in Afghanistan.
Afghan women interviewed about current talks between the government and the Taliban say, 'There is no going back.' Taliban fundamentalist rule in the 1990s forced women into poverty and subservience.
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