Gaza civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Thursday killed seven people in the Palestinian territory, including four children, despite a ceasefire that has largely held since October. A drone strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, killing four, including three children, agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said. Read More: Israeli strike kills five […]
NGO's
Doctors Without Borders risks deregistration in Gaza
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières – MSF) expects to be barred from operating in Gaza after missing Israel’s December 31 deadline to comply with new registration rules for international relief agencies. Israeli authorities say the measures are intended to prevent Hamas from exploiting humanitarian aid, but MSF warns the move would cut off life-saving […]
The perils of Pakistani public schooling: A system failing its children
For the average Pakistani, if he is able to afford it, sending their children to private school is not a choice rather a compulsion. In stark contrast, we find that for the financially abled American, opting for Public school is commonplace. Perhaps this roots from the tremendous variation in differences in cost of schooling between […]
Int’l law: offender or defender US? Part-I
“If international law is , in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law”. -Hersch Lauterpacht There can be no denying that the United States and its President play an instrumental role in strengthening or weakening international law. And […]
Tackling child abuse
A report by the NGO Sahil has revealed that reported cases of child sexual abuse rose by 11 percent in 2018. Over ten cases of abuse were reported every day last year, with a total of 3,832 child abuse cases being reported across the country from all four provinces as well as Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad […]