IT for Change has signed on to a letter submitted by scientists, academics, and scientific organizations from multiple regions across the world, expressing concerns regarding biosecurity risks in the ongoing negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) Annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
The letter reflects issues…
The government is fiddling, as children are losing foundational literacy and numeracy. The Karnataka government has opened schools fully for grades 9-12 and partly for 6-8. However, lower primary schools (LPS) consisting of grades 1-5 remain closed and may have a zero year (a year of no school). Most states seem to favor keeping LPS closed.…
A virus may be apolitical but our response to it reveals biases and inequities in our systems. As we all adapt to the new “normal”, it is critical that we look at the stated and unstated assumptions, and implicit and explicit changes being made to our social welfare systems, which impact people differently.
Millions of children have been…