Accountability is critical when it comes to ensuring that promises made by the governments translate into ground realities “where no one is left behind.” Without robust accountability mechanisms, we risk failing on goals and targets, such as those enshrined in Sustainable Development

Pakistan is a country of followers of different ideologies and religions with millions of followers of different religions and sects. The religion of the vast majority is Islam. The country has faced problems such as religious and sectarian intolerance in every era, This often leads to difficulti

In the February 2 post of Prez Trump four points are highlighted by POTUS  (i)- India agreed to stop buying Russian oil (ii)- India to reduce its tariff & non-tarrif barriers against the USA to Zero (iii)- Indian imports from the USA to go at a higher level of $ 500 billion (which is bou

What’s Going on In The World? I am not alone in wondering what is happening in the world right now and how we will fix the problems. The climate, the traffic issue, the political parties’ unrest, the natural disasters, the wars and threats of war, the demise of the family unit, the in

If one assumes that artificial intelligence (AI) is for the ‘haves’ and not ‘have-nots,' then let us dive deeper into how AI is helping reach the unreached populations with state-of-the-art public health services. Not just Global North, but several countries of the Global So

As the founder of LEAD Ministries and an advocate for child rights, I feel compelled to raise urgent alarm about a disturbing global trend: the forced veiling of young girls, which increasingly targets children at an alarmingly early age. This practice represents a form of ideological coercion th

 Even before 2026 began, we were never on track to deliver on gender equality and human right to health and broader development justice. For example, there has been hardly any decline in gender-based violence perpetrated by intimate partners and others since 2000. Despite promises to end fem

New York: Crimes against humanity represent one of the most serious affronts to human dignity and collective conscience. They embody patterns of widespread or systematic violence directed against civilian populations — including murder, enforced disappearances, torture, persecution, sexual

Summit of sub-national government leaders from over 121 cities of 12 countries in Asia and the Pacific region unitedly passed an important declaration in Jakarta, Indonesia to save lives from preventable causes of diseases and untimely deaths, like tobacco use, TB, antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

It is a bitter reality that the vast majority of Pakistani Christians live in extreme poverty, deprived of the basic necessities of life, health, education, proper housing, food, and employment facilities.

A 2012 survey in Lahore found that the average monthly income of a Christian fami

Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb is synonymous with the evolution of India’s composite culture, shaped by continuous and organic interaction between Hindus and Muslims over nearly a millennium. Its roots can be traced to the advent of Islam in the 7th century, when cultural contact began and later flou

The Sykes-Picot agreement, which established the contemporary Middle East map following World War I, has led to the Kurds being the world's largest stateless population, as we are all aware. Distributed across four nations in the region—Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The Kurds have long

A new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) warns of a historic surge in global Christian persecution, with Nigeria remaining the deadliest country for believers.

The report shows that over 80% of all religion-based killings worldwide in 2024 occurr

In order to MAGA Prez Trump ought to avoid unnecessarily overspending (than necessary)  the financial & military resources of the USA for the mission of  maintaining global peace & order. 

The US President Trump launched the “Board of Peace” (BoP) at i

This written communication draws the attention of the United Nations and its human rights mechanisms to persistent and grave violations in Jammu and Kashmir, which cumulatively raise serious concerns under international human rights law and international criminal law, including the threshold of c