2019
June 11, 2019
Community-based child protection Seven decades of noticeably worsening record of child abuse ought to have convinced us to either reform or replace our dysfunctional child protection […]
June 3, 2019
The pointless toy-gun notifications On June 10, 2017, the Sindh Government issued a notification to ban the sale of toy guns for a period of two […]
May 30, 2019
Building the missing child protection system “Tortured, beaten, boiling water thrown on her body and salt poured on her freshly bleeding wounds”, is how the TV […]
May 27, 2019
The 42 rights of a child The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified convention in history. What […]
May 17, 2019
Child protection, dog bites and us. Eight year old Rizwan from Shikarpur, was the 5th child to die in Karachi as a result of […]
May 1, 2019
Protecting the weak and the vulnerable Is there a relationship between the way a society treats its animals and the attitude it shows towards its […]
April 21, 2019
On modern day freight forwarders If Sajjad Hyder Yildirim had been alive today, he would have certainly included the modern day “freight forwarders” in his famous article, […]
April 12, 2019
Why the NAP may keep napping. On March 28, 2019, the government, perhaps for the nth time, declared its unshaken resolve and its foremost priority to […]
April 10, 2019
Militants and extremists are of two kinds. Those who don turbans and brandish Kalashnikovs and those often termed as the elite, the powerful and the influential […]
April 7, 2019
Prof. Dr. Aisha Mehnaz In his very first address to the nation, Prime Minister Imran Khan talked about the issue of children’s rights, abuse and neglect. […]
April 6, 2019
The right to safety at work Naeem Sadiq Express Tribune, Jan 4, 2017 http://tribune.com.pk/story/1283446/right-safety-work/ On October 17, 2000 a London-to-Leeds express train derailed south of Hatfield […]
April 6, 2019
‘Bhuladia’ Factory Fire – What really failed? Naeem Sadiq The News, 29 Jan 2013 ‘Bhuladia’ is not the name of a factory. It is a sickness […]
April 6, 2019
Between death and starvation Naeem Sadiq The News 15 Sept 2012 People do not go to work to be blown into smithereens by ill-maintained boilers or […]