LAHORE: Offices of district child commissioners have been set up in the province to address issues of child abuse and safeguard the rights of children, Punjab Ombudsman Javed Mahmood said. The offices will be supervised by district advisers. The ombudsman was addressing participants of a workshop on child rights in connection with the 25th anniversary […]
KARACHI: Speakers at a programme held at a local hotel on Wednesday to mark Human Rights Day underlined the need to remove text based on hate and discrimination from the educational curriculum that, they suggested, should include the contribution of non-Muslims towards the establishment of Pakistan. A biased mindset produced by discriminatory curriculum, they pointed […]
Last year, the United Nations declared Pakistan was “the most dangerous place in the world for journalists;” a record it continues to hold this year. On World Press Freedom day observed on Saturday, the world body proceeded to say that an open and pluralistic media must work without fear of reprisal. Well, of course. The […]
UNITED NATIONS: “An open and pluralistic media” must work in a safe environment without fear of reprisal, the United Nations said on Saturday in observance of the World Press Freedom Day. The world body said last year 71 journalists were killed, while another 826 were arrested. More than 2,000 journalists were threatened or physically attacked […]
The United Nations has allotted specific days to highlight various environmental problems, yet they’re not helping to create the required level of awareness In face of the human-environment nexus, environmental problems are intensifying as socio-economic activities gain momentum with the passage of time. To establish a relationship between development and environment, environmentalists world over are […]
QUETTA: The Baloch National Movement (BNM) has condemned the murder of Ramzan Baloch and Ghafoor Baloch and dumping of their mutilated bodies in Karachi and appealed to the United Nations and international organisations to take notice of human rights violation being committed allegedly by security forces in Balochistan. The BNM activists carrying placards and banners […]
By: Masood Haider UNITED NATIONS: “Those who deny women and girls their right to education, violate Islam,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told an audience at the world body on Monday. He said the religion was for all men and women without discrimination. He observed that the terrorist attack on Malala Yousufzai showed that “the […]
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