Tag: report
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Racial discrimination increases in Pakistan; suggests ICERD report
A Pakistan delegation led by the Secretary of Human Rights, Senator Mumtaz Zehri, and Senator Khalil on Thrusday will submit reports drafted by the National Commission on Human Rights (NHCR) on the implementation of all forms of racial discrimination at Geneva. The report highlights the fact that the country lacks an understanding of racial discrimination…
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Minor improvement in human development ranking for Pakistan: Report
Pakistan has been ranked 161st out of 191 countries on the UN Human Development Index, scoring 0.544 points. This marks a slight improvement from 2023, when Pakistan was ranked 164th with 0.540 points, three places below its 2022 ranking. The report also highlights that Pakistan’s HDI rank remained steady at 161st globally from 2019 to…
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Flood-affected areas unlikely to produce good voter turnout in Balochistan and Sindh: Report
The Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) has stated in a report that over 10 million individuals faced displacement while 2.1 million homes were damaged in Sindh and approximately 100,000 in Balochistan in the devastating floods that hit Pakistan in 2022. The findings of the report reveal that due to financial constraints, there is…
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Climate crises drove 27 million children into hunger in 2022
Extreme weather events in countries vulnerable to climate change drove more than 27 million children into hunger last year, Save the Children said on Tuesday. The figure represented a sharp 135 percent increase over 2021, the UK-based charity said in an analysis ahead of the COP28 climate summit opening in Dubai on Thursday. It said…
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Extreme Rainfall Increases Exponentially With Global Warming: Study
State-of-the-art climate models drastically underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, according to a study published Monday that signals a future of more frequent catastrophic floods unless humanity curbs greenhouse emissions. It comes as countries prepare to meet at the COP28 summit in Dubai beginning later this week, amid fears it could soon…
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Pakistan’s climate problems partially due to world’s richest one per cent: Report
Oxfam has released a new report, “Climate Equality: A Planet for the 99%”, revealing that “The richest one per cent of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution in 2019 as the five billion people who made up the poorest two-thirds of humanity.” While fighting the climate crisis is a shared challenge, not everyone…
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Israel Minister Reprimanded Over Gaza Nuclear ‘Option’ Comment
An Israeli minister was suspended from government meetings “until further notice” Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, after suggesting in an interview dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza. The comments by Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu advocating a fierce military response to Hamas’s October 7 attacks even at the cost of the lives of hostages…
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Pakistan fails to ensure safety of journalists
As the world marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Pakistan’s journalistic community continues to grapple with an alarming surge in violence and impunity. Several reports have highlighted the deteriorating situation, shedding light on the challenges faced by media professionals in the South Asian nation. According to the recently released annual…
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Remember their names: Al Jazeera breaks down casualty report from Gaza
Last week, Gaza’s Health Ministry released a list of Palestinians killed by the on-going Israeli attacks on the besieged strip. The list was released a day after US President Joe Biden questioned the accuracy of the death toll of the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza. “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the…
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Arshad Sharif murder case proceedings on halt
The proceedings of senior journalist Arshad Sharif’s murder trial have been put to halt in District and Sessions Courts Islamabad. According to the details reported by Samaa news, witnesses have failed to appear and there is a lack of interest on their behalf; and so the case’ file was sent to the record room. Judicial…