Description automatically generatedThe reality is a mix of YES and NO. While the facts and figures shared in the latest report by UNAIDS reveal that as a world we are NOT already on the path, they do show that we CAN be there if world leaders take bold actions ensuring that the HIV response has t

Alas! it is not for 45% of women who are not empowered to make choices over their healthcare and contraception needs and choices. Nearly half of the women in 57 developing countries are denied the right to decide whether to have sex with their partners, use contraception or seek healthcare, accor

Since the beginning of time, the mineral-rich sediment of the Nile River flooded the agricultural lands of Upper Egypt each year. Settling on the land for 40 days, the rich silt saturated the soil before pouring into the Mediterranean to provide food for sea creatures. My grandfather’s ston

Pakistan: The execution-style extrajudicial killing of Dr. Shahnawaz Kunhbar has jolted a state already reeling under multiple crises. Pakistan military and intel have a vested interest in the killings.Mirpurkhas Police Deputy Inspector General (D.I.G.) Javed Jiskani and Senior Superintendent of

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Three cases agitate the moral sense of the authorities and recreate the issue of abuses related to the social media blasphemy in Pakistan. The first gravely concerned a doctor, Shah Nawaz Kumbhar, originally from Umerkot in the Province of Sindh, accused of sharing blasphemous contents on social

The USA still Should immediately allow UKraine to use long range missiles (ii)- Russia can easily be deterred from precipitating an escalated / nuclear war with the USA / NATO if the USA urgently dismantles the UN and starts working for a new rule based world body. 

— The USA

The seventy-sixth session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) began on Monday, September 9, 2024, in Geneva while the 57th session of Human Rights Council is also taking place. The 76th session will continue until October 9, 2024.

 The 18 internationall

Akin to a rocking chair that moves forwards and backwards without any real progress, we cannot assume busy TB programmes which may appear to have a lot of movement, to be making any real A person with a picture of a person

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Let us share an old story you might have read it already. But guiding lights always guide. This is one of them for us: "Once upon a time, there was an old woman who used to go to the ocean to do her writing. She had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before she began her work. Ear

Recent bold attacks carried out by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) rocked Pakistan. A large number of people and security personnel were killed in the province of Balochistan when separatist insurgents attacked police stations, railway lines and highways, and security forces camps. The assaults were

Bangladesh has always been open to foreign investment, and the interim government of Bangladesh under Dr Yunus is working to draw in capital for areas that will actually see economic growth, even though recent political transition in Bangladesh slowed down foreign investors' interest in inves

.. So goes the theme of the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) which will be held in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand next month. This theme is a pointer towards channelising the energies of people of all genders who work to defend human rights and promote gender equality to collectively resis

 if Prez Biden & PM Modi think that without launching “ New US sponsored Rule Based Global Order” the global problems can be solved then they are living in a make believe world. 

This refers to the news that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Bid

Transformative empowerment is mostly not given by ‘experts from the outside,’ but happens when the most affected people themselves rise to take back power to transform their lives and wellbeing. “When we put people first, then we cannot just address one or two issues they face,&