Opinion
Recently the world was shocked when the Taliban government’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice closed the Band-e-Amir national park to women, saying female visitors were failing to cover up. The park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site 110 miles west of Kabul, is renown...
BRICS as currently constituted accounts for 40 percent of the global population and over 25 percent of the global GDP. It is seen by some as a counterweight to the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The BRIC countries started meeting formally in 201...
Extreme, deadly heat waves, fire and heavy rain have seen residents in North West Canada, parts of the mainland United States around Texas, Maui, an island in Hawaii, parts of Spain, parts of Africa, South Asia including Bangladesh grappling with severe climate crisis and consequent disasters. This ...
Latin American Amazon nations sharing the Amazon paradigm recently met in the Brazilian city of Belem to review existing environmental policies and also identify common factors that need to be addressed carefully pertaining to deforestation. The participants sought to agree on a list of unified envi...
On the 48th anniversary of our National Mourning Day, one has to remember that the August putsch was carried out by certain sections of the armed forces and a group of disgruntled politicians. They roamed the streets of Dhaka and swept aside innocence, their eyes showing as much charity as glass. Th...
The whole Islamic world for the last three decades has been trying to improve the existing human rights paradigm with regard to treatment of children. This effort was undertaken not only by the Islamic States who are Members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference but also through collaboratio...
Any crisis creates a scenario where financial implications come to the forefront and poorer families have a hard time deciding on priorities regarding expenditure. Within that paradigm, in many cases, in different parts of the world we have noticed that children are kept away from expendit...
The world has been carefully monitoring the recent evolving dimensions in the interactive engagement that has been taking place between the USA and China and also how ASEAN has been providing the platform for greater scope for the trilateral efforts.US Secretary of State Blinken went to Jakarta, Ind...
Socio-economic strategists appear to have hit the nail on the head by pointing out that Governments and international financial institutions need to adopt new ways of providing post-pandemic support to avoid hurting vulnerable communities even further during the Post-Pandemic period. This view has s...
European countries are trying their best to adopt a more targeted approach for finding acceptable solutions to reduce the impact of high-energy prices on their socio-economic platform. A more effective move forward according to energy analysts might be able to help them in overcoming the cost-of-liv...
Climate change will accelerate humanitarian crises around the world in 2023, adding to the issues created by armed conflict and economic downturns, according to a study by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC). The agency, based in New York and led by former UK politician David Miliband, flag...
Environmental analysts have drawn the world’s attention to a new dimension in environmental science. Alison Kentish has urged the world to seriously discuss and try to fully understand the various dimensions related to carbon capture and storage which plays a significant role in coastal e...
Human rights have gradually evolved over the years and are based on mankind’s increasing demand for a life in which the inherent dignity and worth of each human being will receive respect and protection.One can state in this context that the denial of human rights and fundamental freedoms not ...
The dynamic of governance in Turkey is being monitored very carefully by the Western countries as well as those from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has surprised his critics, pundits and pollsters by securing a third term and extending his 20-year ru...
The need to reform the existing paradigm of the United Nations Security Council re-emerged once again through remarks made by the current UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during a press meeting towards the end of the Summit meeting of the G 7 which had been convened recently in Hiroshima, Japan...
Will artificial intelligence (AI), a technological invention, single-handedly decide and break up the future course of human history? This has become a subject of intense discussion in recent weeks.Professor Santiago Zabala and senior Journalist Claudio Gallo while accepting the future emergence of ...
Based on their calculations, the United Nations recently informed the world that India had surpassed China in terms of population- a milestone that would add to the dimension of their image in socio-economic terms. Demographic analyst Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of Ind...
This year’s celebration of the World Press Freedom Day on 3 May was particularly special for the international community as it marked the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of the Day by the United Nations General Assembly. Like other years, it served as an occasion to take stock not only of...
Digital experts in the recent past have not only grown aware of the greater need for expansion of the internet paradigm but also that such a process is another step towards expansion in the observance of human rights. This awareness appears to have emerged because of reported difficulties being...
The early 1900s was an age of coal and iron. Industry was noisy and filthy, spewing the smoke from burning coal far and wide. In Philadelphia, one of the hives of industry on the Eastern Seaboard of the US, things had already become intolerable. In 1904, some 50 years before the country's Air Po...
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