Haroon Mustafa Janjua

Much is written today about gender and the workplace with comparison of rights, duties, performances and issues concerning women and men. If we move to the rural areas of Pakistan we find active involvement of women in agricultural and livestock farming. In Pakistan, these sectors are not reported in detail by the national and international […]

Female labour participation has progressively been acquiring focus among policy strategists, sociologists, feminists and economists. Although considerable leaps and strides can be observed, raising the levels of women’s participation in the labour market, there have been several concerns and challenges that yet remain to be addressed and overcome. Women’s rights have received scarce attention so […]

The earth’s climate has always been changing. The impacts of climate change include biodiversity losses, rise in sea levels, shifts in weather patterns, changes in freshwater supply and an increase in extreme weather events such as floods and droughts as well as glacial melting and various health impacts. Major concerns are the threats to food, […]

World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5 across the globe. Primarily the objective is to create awareness in the masses over the key environmental issues that the entire world is facing currently. The UN General Assembly declared 2014 as the International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). World Environment Day 2014 is […]

Many efforts are being initiated to create awareness among the masses about conservation of wildlife and biodiversity across the globe by environmental protection agencies and organisations. Wildlife is an essential component of the environment, providing various benefits to all living things. Their survival is indispensable for preserving a sustainable ecosystem in nature. “The earth’s wild […]

Polls and rigging in polls are not new phenomena in the world of politics. They have a long history of universal existence. Every election has been challenged in one way or the other by the losing side. It has been a year since the May 2013 polls and those who received a mandate from the […]

Drones are used as a regular part of US counterterrorism strategy to kill, rather than capture, suspects accused of taking part in terrorist activities within Pakistan. The US policy in Afghanistan and Iraq has not been questioned because the US was at war with these states and still has a military presence there but drone […]

The forthcoming sixteenth general parliamentary elections of India will be another litmus test for the institution of democracy, with more than 800 million people exercising their electoral franchise, the largest in the world. Unlike western countries where the polity consists of two or three major parties, third world democracies are often marked by a multi-party […]

Air pollution is one of the biggest problems in our urban areas. There are many factors behind this, including urbanisation, heavy increase in number of vehicles, rapid growth of unplanned population and lack of good public transport. The increasing rate of pollutants in the air is the key measure that creates smog and contributes to […]

An unsafe abortion is defined as “a procedure for terminating an unintended pregnancy carried out either by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment that does not conform to minimal medical standards, or both.” Whether they live in countries where abortion is legal or not, the fact is that women across the world […]