Half of the quarter-billion students who faced academic interruptions were in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan KARACHI: In South Asia, the climate crisis has made monsoons fiercer, heatwaves more severe, and floods more relentless —transforming nature’s wrath from a distant threat into an
Formula milk companies are lobbying to have breast milk substitutes or formula milk declared as ‘food’ to remove it from the purview of health and medicine authorities, enabling them to freely market their products without regulatory oversight, health experts warned on 25
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Children’s Parliament, which held a session in Hyderabad on January 19, appears far from being satisfied with the state of education in the province as it finds the allocated budget lacking and its utilisation missing. The Children’s Parliament was
MITHI: Young schoolchildren coming from nine districts of the province highlighted issues relating to their studies and institutions at a mock assembly convened in the Tharparkar District Council hall with the joint collaboration of Unicef, Thar Education Alliance (TEA) and Sindh government’s
KARACHI: In a landmark moment for the first-ever Sindh Children’s Parliament, Syeda Rida Batool Kazmi took oath as Chief Minister after securing a decisive victory with 40 votes. Her contender, a ninth-grade student from GHS Mithi Tharparkar, Ashok Kumar, trailed behind with
KARACHI: The province of Sindh has been declared “maternal and neonatal tetanus-free” by international experts. A debriefing session held on Monday at a local hotel was chaired by Sindh Health Secretary Rehan Iqbal Baloch and attended by officials from the federal directorate
KARACHI: Children from across Pakistan came together to speak up for their rights at a World Children’s Day commemoration held at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, asking decision-makers to translate their commitments on child rights and climate change into reality. Talented
Currently, 20 districts in Sindh are affected by poliovirus, with 13 confirmed polio cases in the province. However, the Sindh government remains fully committed to eradicating the virus, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah pledged on 12-November-2024. Recent data shows that
With the support of the Reform Support Unit Sindh and Unicef, the Thar Education Alliance is launching a Children’s Parliament to promote educational rights and bring out-of-school children back to school in Sindh. Children from 30 districts of Sindh will participate in
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on 11-September-2024 said that monsoon floods in Sindh had forced thousands of children out of school, as Pakistan struggled with recurring extreme weather events disrupting education and putting young lives at risk. “Children in