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Thousands of Pakistan traders shuttered their shops on Saturday, striking over soaring energy and fuel bills stirring widespread discontent ahead of national elections.Decades of mismanagement and instability have hobbled Pakistan’s economy, and this summer Islamabad was forced into a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avert default.However, ...

The promise of the United Nations as a force to advance human rights and equality crashed head-on with the reality of international politics in South Africa 20 years ago at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and its parallel NGO Forum.I and many ...

Returning to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was one of many moves made by the administration of US President Joe Biden to reverse the policies of its predecessor.Almost three years to the date of former president Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the UNHRC – over its repeated singling ...

Growing up and yearning to fit in, as teens often do, I resented my surname.  At nine letters long, the South Asian surname I inherited from my father proved too long and difficult to spell, much less pronounce with an anglophone tongue. I longed for the inconspicuous conformity offered ...