Karachi: A road made from plastic waste was inaugurated under the PSO Eco Street project adjacent to PSO House. Mayor Karachi Barrister Murtaza Wahab and Pakistan State Oil MD & CEO Syed Muhammad Taha inaugurated PSO Eco Street. This initiative is part of PSO’s ongoing efforts to promote a sustainable plastic road, reduction of plastic…
Peshawar: The Election Commission has released the announcement of 8 reserved seats for women from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to the announcement of the Election Commission, the seats were distributed to other parties as the Sunni Ittehad Council did not get specific seats. Muslim League-N has been given 4 seats, JUI and Pelez Party 2 and…
London: According to a global study, the number of people suffering from dementia has exceeded one billion. According to a study published in the journal The Lancet, according to the data of 2022, 159 million children and adolescents and 879 million older people are suffering from the problem of obesity. Data presented in the study…
The emergency relief agency said that a 14-truck food convoy – the first by WFP since it paused deliveries to northern Gaza on 20 February – was turned back by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint. “Although today’s convoy did not make it to the north to…
Citing alarming examples in Aleppo, Grozny, Mariupol, Myanmar, Sudan and Gaza, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, said an “increasingly systematic, massive and arbitrary destruction of civilian housing and infrastructure” during too many conflicts around the world is in blatant violation of international human rights and humanitarian laws. “We have seen or are…
“The sexual abuse and the exploitation of children within the entertainment industry resulting from unethical systems, structures, practices or abuse of power and authority is widespread,” said Mama Fatima Singhateh, the UN Special Rapporteur on sale and sexual exploitation of children. Child performers in the entertainment industry are exposed to sexualized, violent and aggressive environments that…
Briefing ambassadors at the Security Council, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said that if the parties display greater political will and invest adequate resources, credible elections can still take place before the end of the transition period. “Despite the shortcomings in implementation, the peace agreement did instill a period of stability at the national level and brought opponents…
The global proportion of women in the world’s voting chambers inched up to 26.9 per cent on the back of elections and appointments through the year, the international organization said in its latest report on Women in Parliament. The growth was similar to the increase in 2022, but slower than the two years prior, IPU…
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters in New York that António Guterres wanted to see “urgent action, particularly in providing financial support for the multinational security support mission”, which has been authorized by the Security Council in a bid to restore law and order to the crisis-wracked nation, the poorest in the western hemisphere. Kenya…
The Unjust Climate report highlights the reality that every year in low and middle-income countries, female heads of households in rural areas suffer significantly greater financial losses than men. On average, female-headed households lose eight per cent more of their income due to heat stress and three per cent more due to floods compared with male-headed households….
