In an interview with UN News, Senior Policy Analyst from the GEM report team Anna D’addio said the report examines the issue of technology in education through a gender lens. She said the report highlights progress in the reversal of discrimination against girls over the past two decades but also exposes the negative impact of…
Briefing ambassadors on the Security Council, Geir Pedersen called for a regional de-escalation, starting with an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In addition to the regional spillover effects, he expressed deep concern over the ongoing conflict within Syria itself. “There are in fact no signs of calm in any of Syria’s theaters – only unresolved conflicts,…
“The Gaza crisis is truly becoming a global crisis of the freedom of expression,” said Ms. Khan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. “This is going to have huge repercussions for a long time to come.” Demonstrations around the world have been roundly…
The warning from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, came as some 1.2 million people continued to shelter in tents pitched in and around the enclave’s southernmost city, Rafah, with nowhere else to go. “It is like living in a greenhouse, no-one can tolerate living inside,” the UN agency said, quoting Mustafa Radwan, formerly…
The development is in line with several western European countries that have reportedly reduced access to similar gender identity treatments whose benefits were found to be “remarkably weak”, according to a National Health Service (NHS) England-commissioned review, published on 10 April by consultant paediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass. UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem also welcomed the…
Named after the flowers civilians stuffed in the muzzles of the soldiers’ guns, the revolution put Portugal on the path to democracy and led to the independence of its six remaining colonies, stretching from Africa to the Pacific, with ripple effects in Brazil – independent since 1822, but under military rule from 1964 to 1985….
Accused Farah was presented to the court under tight security (Photo: Screen grab). Rawalpindi: The woman who ran over the highway police officer with her car and ran away was sent to jail on judicial remand by the court. The woman Farah, who ran away after hitting the Motorway Police officer, was presented by the…
Don’t block the roads in the name of security, if you feel too scared, go and sit in a remote area, Chief Justice Karachi: The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Qazi Faiz Isa has expressed his anger and said that in Karachi Naval, Rangers Headquarters, Governor, CM House, all are also occupying the footpaths. A…
Victims to submit their ownership documents and details of money deposited, Supreme Court Karachi: The Supreme Court ordered to auction the plot of the demolished Nasla Tower for illegal construction and give money to the victims. A hearing was held on the petition of the victims of Nasla Tower in the Supreme Court Karachi Registry….
Peshawar: The High Court has remarked during the hearing of the case that inflation has become so high that people are forced to sell their children. A hearing was held on the petition filed for detailing the cases of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur, in which the Additional Director FIA told the court…
