Making national legislatures more gender-balanced
Context: The Global Gender Gap report for 2018 said that the widest gender disparity is in the field of political empowerment. To cite the Inter-Parliamentary Union 2018 report, women legislators…
Pakistan was elected as a member state of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council
Pakistan was elected as a member state of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council by the body’s General Assembly in Oct 2017, securing more than two-thirds of the vote.…
Nepal wants to measure height of Mount Everest again
The height of Mount Everest having become a subject of debate in recent years, the government of Nepal has set about plans to measure it once again. The government is…