https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2 en-us 2017-12-04 09:25:18 UTC 2025-12-04 15:49:54 UTC hello@padlet.com foratemer198 https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212769371 While the state of the education system in Pakistan is terrible and the difference between education providers and people's aspirations, we believe that a window of opportunity is now open to begin reforming the system. There is an urgent need to seize this opportunity, because population dynamics will make education a more serious problem in the next decade if immediate action is not taken. In 2012, UNESCO said Pakistan showed the smallest progress in the region by educating low-income girls. Even when there is a possibility of enrolling in a school, in fact, it can be quite dangerous. In June 2013, militants exploded on a bus carrying university students in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, and the school was closed.]]> 2017-12-04 10:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212769371 foratemer198 https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212772075 Afghan refugees in Pakistan account for about 3 million, making them the largest refugee community in the world. Life for Afghan refugees was not easy in Pakistan. UNHCR found that less than a quarter of them are employed and nearly three-quarters of children do not go to school. Refugee women are the worst as a combined result of their gender and refugee status. Becoming a refugee means losing legal and social status as well as traditional community-based structures that often protect women. Because of this, refugee women are vulnerable to trauma, sexual violence, deepening poverty and increased work burden. According to one estimate, one-third of Afghan refugee women are widowed, but little is done to meet their special needs. Tribal and political leaders also restrict women's mobility in a new "alien" land, which means that few women can go out to find jobs or better opportunities. Women's voices are lacking in policies around the training and planning of refugee camps, although women make up seventy-five percent of the refugee population.]]> 2017-12-04 10:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212772075 foratemer198 https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212773781
In Syria’s savage war, it seems incongruous to single out the experiences of one group. Yet many gay men there face a double threat: They’re being persecuted by the Syrian army and by militant groups while their families often reject them, or worse. Of course, the war did not bring homophobia to Syria. Gay men there have long been the target of “honor killings,” as they are considered a disgrace to their families. Others have been imprisoned on the basis of Article 520 of the country’s 1949 penal code, which calls for a three-year sentence for “carnal knowledge against the order of nature.” The war has, however, intensified the surveillance, entrapment and public exposure of gay men. 
Over two days in February, Human Rights Watch interviewed 19 gay Syrian men who had taken refuge in Lebanon. (Lesbians are more difficult to find in Syria’s closeted culture.) Their stories offer a glimpse of what gay people face while the nation is consumed by violence, with no end in sight. They described the appalling conditions of Syria’s makeshift prisons, with intense overcrowding — as many as 400 people crammed into a single room — and the frequent use of torture.

]]> 2017-12-04 10:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212773781 foratemer198 https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212775983 Violence against children occurs in different forms (physical, sexual, neglect, emotional and psychological) and at multiple levels (individual, household, institutional, and societal). A WHO Consultation on Child Abuse Prevention recognized violence against children as a growing public-health and development problem and defined child abuse as “Child abuse and maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child's health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power.”]]> 2017-12-04 10:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212775983 foratemer198 https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212777779 In Pakistan, the most important aspect of well-being is also the most neglected. In its 70-year history, Pakistan’s successive governments — civil and military — have not made health a priority. It is woeful that discussions around health policy receive little to no space in the agenda of political parties. And while the media tends to report heavily on specific heath-related crises — such as the spread of polio and child deaths in Thar — meaningful debate around the causes of abysmal health services is virtually absent.]]> 2017-12-04 10:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212777779 foratemer198 https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212779984
The Taliban have also threatened to destabilise Pakistan, where they have controlled areas in the north-west in recent years. Despite a major military offensive against them since 2014, they continue to mount frequent suicide bombings and other attacks across the country. Many observers now believe that future peace in Afghanistan can only come if the government in Kabul negotiates with the Taliban.]]> 2017-12-04 10:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/foratemer198/crpku4uwvxb2/wish/212779984