Remarkably after a yearlong effort by environmental health advocates, air quality has been embedded in the new set of universal development goals for a sustainable future. Since an estimated 60 percent of the global ...read more

This article was originally published by Women’s Media Center Among the goals set by the Platform for Action adopted at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 20 years ago was a section on women and media: ...read more

Preventive diplomacy traditionally involves Track I of governments and inter-governmental organisations in diplomatic negotiations to prevent and end armed conflict. Track II are confidence-building contributions of ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by Pass Blue Negotiations are entering the last stages of formulating the Sustainable Development Goals. For over a year, governments, the United Nations system, ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by Women’s Media Center By any economic yardstick—wages, lifetime income, land, financial assets, retirement, social security, inheritance—women globally lag far ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by the Women’s Media Center I scrambled through my storage all morning looking for my Bella hat from Beijing 1995. It was 20 years later, and I was running late for ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published on Dawn.com GROWING up in Lahore I wondered about the gap in my history textbook between the end of Indus Valley civilisation circa 1500 BC and the invasion of Sindh by ...read more

Pakistan’s civilian government and military have come together to fight terrorism with an integrated National Action Plan (NAP). Les­sons learned from other countries’ wars against similar totalitarian movements can ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published in the Khaleej Times The signatory countries of the Arms Trade Treaty [ATT] will huddle together in Berlin to prepare for the ATT’s entry into force on December 24, ...read more

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by Women’s Media Center She stands behind him like a protective angel, not looking at the camera, a little lost in the group of nuclear disarmament negotiators, ...read more