From Bullets to Development: Rethinking Military Expenditure in Favour of Official Development Assistance
International assistance has achieved remarkable accomplishments in reducing global poverty, supporting girls' education, addressing hunger, ensuring safe childbirth, nearly eradicating polio, combating female genital...
The Social Ostracism of the Disabled: A Tale of Discrimination, Deprivation, and Disregard
A first-of-its-kind report on disability produced jointly by World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank suggests that more than a billion people today experience...
Youth Empowerment for Building Back a Better World
“The future of humanity and our planet lies in our hands. It lies also in the hands of today's younger generation who will pass...
Feminization of Politics: Claiming a Seat at the Table
Feminization of politics inculcates three basic paradigms to make political realms more inclusive; First, gender equality in public participation and institutional representation. Secondly, commitment...
An Intersectional Approach to Poverty and Inequality
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not lead single-issue lives.” These words spoken by Audre Lorde, aptly capture...
Future of Humanity and Artificial Intelligence: A Panacea or a Frankenstein Monster?
An Open letter is being called for that emphasizes putting a 6-month pause on 'giant AI experiments' attracting the signatures from the likes of...
Epistemicide: Intellectual Genocide and Eurocentric Modernity
When the Europeans colonized the Global South, they not only appropriated tangible resources but also occupied and transformed the epistemological landscape to propound their...
Afghanistan, Taliban and Women: A Tale of Gender Apartheid
Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing gender-based discrimination and violence. By failing the Afghan women, we are failing women everywhere.
In the novel 1984, George...
Global Politics of Unequal Development: Revisiting the North-South Divide
When an Englishman wants something, George Bernard Shaw observes, he never admits to himself of wanting it. Instead his will is expressed as a...
Social Inequality and Sustainable Development in Pakistan
According to the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022, in some countries, women are more than twice as likely as men to experience discrimination on...