Around 63,000 cases of gender-based violence (GBV) were reported in Pakistan over the past three years, with some 4,000 being reported in the first half of 2020 when lockdowns were imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus, Dawn News reported.
With this new funding, the US' total assistance for those affected by the Rakhine State and Rohingya crisis has reached nearly USD 2.1 billion since August 2017, when over 7,40,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to safety in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, according to a press statement issued by the
A prominent Turkish human rights legal consultant has said he paid one of the suspects in the European parliament corruption scandal for "ethical lobbying services" that included resolutions condemning war crimes in Syria and Yemen, the Financial Times reported. London-based Hakan Camuz said
"We reject the factually incorrect and unwarranted references to India in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) statement. The entire territory of Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh is an integral and inalienable part of India. OIC has lost its credibility by taking
New Delhi [India], March 8 (ANI/SRV): Renowned audio social media, SpeakApp, a prominent name in the Indian social media landscape, known for celebrating the beauty of linguistic diversity, has recently celebrated a major milestone of 100K downloads.
President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday said that the country has a good representation of women in decision-making institutions at the grassroots level. But as we move up in the hierarchy, we see fewer women, she added.
The 'meal-recall effect,' or recalling a recent meal, can limit the amount of food a person would consume later. The effect on meal-recall effect of believing that a recent meal was twice as big and satisfying as reality or recalling a recent meal in detail was explored by researchers from t
India on Tuesday, while hosting the first India-Central Asia Joint Working Group on Afghanistan, upon the requests by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Central Asian Republics, offered customized capacity-building courses for their relevant stakeholders/officials.
Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundarrajan said that women holding the highest office are insulted, ridiculed and humiliated while those doing this are rewarded in Telangana.
According to the New York Times report, Meena Kotwal, the founder of news portal 'The Mooknayak', wanted to start a news outlet that focussed on marginalised communities as "she knew there were millions who desperately needed their stories told,"