Abortion-rights activists rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington DC, November 1, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin In disastrous news for women’s rights, the US Supreme Court decided today to allow an extreme anti-abortion law in the state of Texas to stand for now. This ruling is likely to further embolden several other states around the country, which may move ...

A Myanmar soldier during an anti-coup demonstration in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 7, 2021. © 2021 Kaung Zaw Hein/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images (Tokyo) – The Japanese government should cut ties with the Myanmar military and immediately suspend a military study-abroad program involving Myanmar cadets, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, staged a coup and ...

As in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic continued to dominate headlines in 2021, and we continued to cover the response from governments around the world, some of which used restrictions in the name of public health to clamp down on essential rights. But through the year, we covered much more. From a blockbuster report detailing Israeli authorities’ crimes of apartheid and ...

People mostly confabulate about education with degrees in which the importance of knowledge often gets hidden or ignored.Today, we have millions of students holding Master’s degrees in miscellaneous subjects but their lack of knowledge and dexterity in their relevant subjects is hampering them to reach the top echelons in their lives. That is why our degree holders owing to extreme ...

Environmental issues are currently engulfing almost the entire world and the world is rapidly being affected by these changes. Floods, storms and torrential rains have wreaked havoc. All of these problems are the result of individual shortcomings, and developed industrialized countries have a large share in the growing environmental problems. Climate change is not only changing the duration of the ...

Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region arrive on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, November 21, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty (Nairobi, December 16, 2021) – Amhara security forces are responsible for a surge of mass detentions, killings, and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in the Western Tigray territory ...

Rohingya refugee students demonstrate against being expelled from Bangladeshi secondary schools in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 6, 2019. © 2019 Private (Bangkok) – The Bangladesh government should urgently reverse a decision to close thousands of home-based and community-led schools for Rohingya refugee students, Human Rights Watch said today. Unless the foreign minister or the disaster management minister overturns the action, approximately 30,000 children ...

(Bangkok) – Transgender people in Thailand have no route to legal recognition of their gender identity, making them vulnerable to various forms of discrimination, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today with the Thai Transgender Alliance. The 60-page report, “‘People Can’t Be Fit Into Boxes’: Thailand’s Need for Legal Gender Recognition,” found that the absence of legal gender recognition, coupled with insufficient ...

Attacks by armed separatist groups on students, teachers, and schools in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions have had a devastating impact on children’s right to education. These criminal attacks don’t just cause immediate physical and psychological harm, but they jeopardize the future of tens of thousands of students. Regional and international partners should urge Cameroonian authorities to investigate and prosecute attacks on education ...

The education system of a country is most important as the operators of the political, economic, administrative and religious system work them according to the quality and completeness of their education. Yet the education system of Pakistan is facing a lot of challenges through different means. Education is a process of gaining knowledge and building up skills. It is considered ...

Persistently hazardous air quality suggests that Pakistan lacks a framework to mitigate pollution. However, Pakistan has a rich history of environmental legislation — successive governments have instituted departments, laws, and mandates over time to manage air quality. For example, national and provincial legislative acts establish environmental protection agencies, delineate the agencies’ governance structures and responsibilities, and mandate air quality and ...

In her written testimony to the US Senate on October 4, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen states, “Right now, Facebook chooses what information billions of people see, shaping their perception of reality.” A data scientist and former Facebook employee, Haugen leaked a trove of internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and the US law enforcement, alleging that the tech giant ...

It is a sad reality that the fate of women and children has long been dependent on the jirgas in rural Sindh. Matters as trivial as a goat being stolen or as serious as a land dispute are settled by punishing the daughter of the erring family. The punishment in many cases being the organised rape of the girl, or ...

Can you relate these statements with the state of affairs in Pakistani society currently? Women are the property of their male guardians. The male members of society can impose punishments through shouting, beating, abusing, or killing when women do not abide by their rules, commit adultery, or even walk outside of the home wearing ‘inappropriate’ clothing. Historically, these norms were ...

According to him, “Well aware of the Americans’ intrusiveness, I do not rule out that they will be pressing for the same aim from different sides. I’ve heard that they have been trying to persuade India to grant the Pentagon some opportunities on the Indian territory.” To be clear, Lavrov wasn’t saying that India will indeed end up doing this, ...