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Opinion
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan at the launch of the Institute of Advanced Virology's Mobile Outbreak Testing Unit La garantía de vivir está viva en Kerala

En 2016, el gobierno del Frente Democrático de Izquierda de Kerala anunció el objetivo de reducir la mortalidad infantil a una cifra de un solo dígito. El año pasado, logró reducir la tasa a cinco por cada 1.000 nacimientos, una cifra inferior al promedio nacional de la India e incluso a la de algunos países del Norte global.

The guarantee of life is alive in Kerala

In 2016, Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government announced the goal of cutting infant mortality to single digits. Last year, it managed to bring the ratio to five per 1,000 births — lower than India’s national average and even some Global North countries’.

The possibility of a war against Iran

Iran’s Armed Forces showcase strength and resolve amid regional tensions during the Payambar-e Azam military exercises.

The children of Gaza are freezing to death

Trapped in war zones with no relief, freezing conditions claim the lives of infants and expose the devastating toll on civilians worldwide.

Why Amazon is fighting so hard to stop warehouse workers from unionizing

Workers at one of Amazon’s warehouses are deciding whether or not to join a union. Amazon’s union-busting efforts indicate just how important the vote is

It’s easy to fix inequality: Tax the rich

There is no better time than now to address the ridiculous levels of wealth and income inequality in the United States. It can be done with ease through aggressive taxation of the wealthiest handfuls of individuals

Is Israel practicing vaccine leadership or medical apartheid?

Beyond the headlines celebrating Israel’s vaccination rates, lies a story about health inequality with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza bearing the brunt

How the privatization of medicine in India is accelerating its COVID-19 death toll

The COVID-19 crisis was an opportunity for the public systems to recapture their rightful position as the predominant health care providers in the country. But the public systems were unprepared for the task