The agency’s flagship annual report, Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2022, found that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence, and human rights abuses stood at a record 108.4 million, up 19.1 million on the previous year – which was also a record increase. “These figures show us…
Today, the awareness day against forced child labor is being celebrated all over the world, including Pakistan. According to the United Nations, 1 out of every 5 children around the world is forced to do forced labor. The United Nations Children’s Organization UNICEF says that 160 million children between the ages of 5 and 17…
Mayo Hospital Lahore ran out of test kits, patients were forced to get tested from private laboratories. The laboratory of King Edward and Mayo Hospital had informed the hospital administration after not receiving the kits for 1 month. It was said in the post that the kits for urine, bladder, cholesterol, total protein and other…
Russian attacks overnight, killed three people – including the girl’s mother – and wounded 11 others, according to news reports. It followed a reported 17 strikes on the capital during May, and the fourth this week. More than 1,500 killed, injured Ms. Brown expressed her sympathy to the families of “over 1,500 children killed and…
Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in India to be held on July 4; Photo: File New Delhi: The Modi government, fed up with the worst failure of the G-20 meeting in Occupied Kashmir, found relief in holding the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization online. According to Indian media, Foreign Minister Jaishankar announced that the 22nd…
Photo courtesy of Social Media A mother and father in the US state of Georgia were arrested on charges of abuse and neglect of their 10-year-old son. According to foreign media, the 10-year-old boy was looking for a grocery store in his neighborhood in a state of hunger to beg for food. According to police,…
File photo A father had to carry his daughter’s body on a motorcycle after the government hospital in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh refused to provide an ambulance. According to Indian media, a citizen named Laxman Singh said that his 13-year-old daughter died due to illness, after which he asked the hospital administration to…
Citizens take to the streets to rejoice over cease-fire between Israel and Islamic Jihad; Photo: File Gaza: After 5 days of fighting between Israel and the Islamic Jihad organization, the leader of the Palestinian freedom struggle, a ceasefire was agreed upon. According to the World News Agency, Egypt has announced that a ceasefire has been…
“Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been ‘transferred’ from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced,” they said in a statement. ‘Cultural and political indoctrination’ They noted that the labour transfer programme is facilitated by…
Collage courtesy of Twitter A shocking incident has come to light in India where a 70-year-old woman had to walk barefoot for several kilometers to collect her pension from the bank. A video from the Indian state of Odisha is going viral on social media, in which a weak woman can be seen walking barefoot…
