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Forced to marry

Recent months have seen a spike in the reporting of forced religious conversion of abducted Hindu girls in Sindh, later married to their abductors. According to local media reports, the…

Covid-19 and US labor

Gustavo ‘Kike’ Ramirez would have turned 17 this year. He died when his employer failed to provide him with a safety harness at a Nashville, Tennessee construction site on June…

Critical care and laboratory medicine

Venezuelan shopkeeper Manuel Saavedra says new US sanctions are strangling him - and lots of other everyday people. A video game store owner in Caracas, Saavedra has been forced to…

Accountability And Labor Rights

Accountability and labor rights

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has apparently become more prudent in reviewing and disposing of low-profile pending cases in recent days. According to the organisation's officials, there was a realization…

Laws, protocols and trafficking

Every country in the world is affected by human trafficking either as a point of origin, transit or destination, and Pakistan is not an exception. The UNODC describes human trafficking…

Blood money

The BBC reports that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, during an interview, accused Germany and Hungary of paying “blood money” for Russian petroleum. Russia could earn $320 billion from energy exports…