Tag: hunger
Rights Watch | 17th August 2022
Pakistan’s Global Hunger Index ranking low
Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide have listed Pakistan amongst the top 25 countries facing food insecurity, however noting some improvement...
“Our children go to bed hungry”- Workers’ hold protest in Lahore
November 8th, 2020; By Hamid Riaz; LAHORE; Hundreds of workers held a protest march against rising unemployment & inflation and worker's rights violations.
The marchers demanded justice for Ashfaq Langriyal, a protesting farmer who died at the hands of the Lahore police, early this week.
Hunger, not Coronavirus will kill us: say slum dwellers
Jul 06, 2020: The health services of the capital announced contact-tracing and testing for the coronavirus in the abandoned slums of Islamabad under the Trace, Test and Quarantine (TTQ) policy on 29th of June but for slum dwellers, the novel ...
Rights Watch | 8th May 2020
A 19 year old woman of the Shalkanabad area of Upper Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was shot dead by her husband for allegedly serving a cold meal during sehri on April 7. An FIR has been registered for murder, under section ...
Starving In The Time Of Coronavirus
Twenty-two years Riva Jogi belongs to a gypsy snake charmers’ clan in Sanghar, Sindh. In his routine life, Riva leaves home daily to go to mainstream public places so that he may show his snake stunts to people. For jogis, who are the snake ...