Tag: Right to education
Empowering the daughters of Sanitation Workers
NOVEMBER 17: The Khushali program aims at breaking the cycle of societal challenges for the 30 Christian female students. The program aims to liberate them from the constraints imposed by the caste system.
A wait-and-see approach to the SNC
From its conception to the method of its development and implementation, the SNC has been surrounded by a stormy debate regarding the practicality of imposing a uniform syllabus, ensuring that the quality of education is equal across educational institutions, and a perceived perpetuation of religious and ethnic inequalities in the syllabus.
ILM Conference participants term SNC threat to critical thought
Participants at the ILM Conference, organized by the Center for Social Justice, expressed concerns that the SNC will result in a generation unable to keep up pace with the rest of the world.
A right to education, without discrimination
April 27th, 2021; By Suneel Malik; LAHORE; "The matter of religious inclusivity in the SNC has been presented in public as a religious issue in order to create confusion and generate controversy, despite the fact that in actuality it deals with the curricula, and its provisions relating to basic human rights protected under the Constitution," writes Suneel Malik.
Rights Watch | 15th December 2020
A neighbor has confessed to raping and murdering a minor girl whose charred body was found in Peshawar’s Badabher area on November 19. The suspect told a magistrate that he had strangled the girl after assault in his house and later torched her body in a graveyard. For more stories on human rights concerns, keep scrolling.
930,000 students may drop out of schools in Pakistan: WB report
An estimated 930,000 additional children are expected to drop out from primary and secondary schools in Pakistan as parents' incomes decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic, warned a World Bank report on 'Learning losses in Pakistan due to COVID closures'.
