Tag: Inequality

There is an “alarming” racial inequality in England for people who are severely immunocompromised and require a third Covid-19 vaccine, a charity said.Blood Cancer UK said 84 per cent of immunocompromised people from a white British background had three vaccine doses by mid-December, compared to just 43 per cent ...

Stepping up the protest against the suspension of the 12 Rajya Sabha MPs, all Opposition MPs have decided to boycott the session on Wednesday and join their suspended colleagues at the Gandhi statue outside Parliament. Opposition MPs from the Lok Sabha too will join them on another day.Two weeks ...

In January 2018, Asma Rani, a medical student in her third year, was on a semester break in her hometown of Kohat in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Asma and her sister-in-law were on their way back to their house when two men opened fire. Three bullets hit Asma. Before ...

A new study finds that despite high levels of education, UK-born children of immigrant parents face lower levels of employment compared to their white counterparts.By Marc Daniel DaviesBloombergSecond-generation ethnic minorities in Britain have fared much better in education than their white majority counterparts despite having much less advantaged backgrounds, yet ...

Waivers on intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines alone are an insufficient way to address the inequality in jab distribution between rich and poorer nations, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has said. India and South Africa have officially requested that the WTO waive IP protections on ...

First established in the early weeks of the pandemic, when the full scale of the Covid crisis was still taking shape, the global vaccine-sharing initiative Covax faces as many challenges and hurdles today as it did back in April 2020.The scheme, overseen by a coalition of health groups, charities ...

Ensuring equal access to the vaccine isn’t going well ― even within the rich countries who have most of it. As of April 14,the vaccination rate for white people in the US was 1.6 times greater than that for Black people and 1.7 times higher than that for Hispanic ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Economic privileges accorded to Pakistan’s elite groups, including the corporate sector, feudal landlords, the political class and the country’s powerful military, add up to an estimated $17.4bn, or roughly 6 percent of the country’s economy, a new United Nations report has found. Released last week, the ...

So last month, it became one of the few countries to allow the private sector to import and sell vaccines. Several centers sold out in days. Others that had initially allowed walk-ins switched to online sign-ups after being inundated with people. Many online booking systems have since been paused, ...

Powerful people like to point out that Covid-19 does not discriminate. Indeed, the rain, too, does not discriminate against those it falls on. But one’s ability to stay dry beneath a downpour is dependent on the availability of an umbrella. Similarly, our access to security in a pandemic depends ...