Women and Children are the ones that are being the most affected in Pakistan. Violence like rape, acid attacks, domestic violence, forced marriage are some of the most commons ways of abuse to women and children. 21% of the girls marry before being of legal age every year and 3% marry before the age of 15. The governments keep on doing nothing even though the UN recommended to endorse the Safe School Declarations after the armed groups used children in suicide bombings and in August of 2018 12 schools were attacked and burned down. Due to the lack of safety and access to education more than 5 million children of primary age are out of school (Human Rights Watch, 2019).  

40% of the population lives in multidimensional poverty which makes it very important for the citizens to get a job. There are over 68 million people working, which is not even 50%. The conditions in which labor force is done in Pakistan are terrible. Around 4% of the workers reported within a 12-month period injuries or diseases since Pakistan doesn't have a health and safety legislation.  There are more than 2 million children between the ages of 10 to 14 that work (Ethical Trading Initiative, 2017). 

Human Rights Watch. (2019). Pakistan: events of 2018. Retrieved from: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/pakistan

 

U.S. Department of State. (2021). 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Pakistan. Retrieved from:  https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/pakistan/

 

Ethical Trading Initiative. (2017). Human Rights Due Diligence in Pakistan. Retrieved from: https://www.ethicaltrade.org/sites/default/files/shared_resources/human_rights_due_diligence_in_pakistan.pdf

 

India’s government is connected to their economic development. India has a Sovereign socialist secular democratic republic. This means that India has a parliamentary system of government, and this has a direct or indirect support of the parliament (National Portal of India, 2022). Even though this means they have a lot of freedom, their economy is the 131 freest in the world.  According to the Index of Economic Freedom, the economic freedom score is 53.9, which is low considering India is known for the great amount of goods they produce. (Index of Economic Freedom, 2022). 

Over the last decades, residents in Indian cities have had extreme heat and water shortage. This is mostly due to climate change disrupting the quantity of rainfall and the overpopulation in the cities. More than 31% of urban households did not have access to public tap water or piped water. More than 60% of urban households do not have access to piped water (Padmanabha & Srivastava, P, 2019). This violates the human right of “Access to safe drinking water and sanitation” (UNHR, n/d).  

 

Padmanabhan, V & Srivastava, P. (2019). Which Indian city will run out of water first? Retrieved from: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/which-indian-city-will-run-out-of-water-first-1564920315004.html 

 

Human Rights Watch. (2021). EU: Speak Out Against India’s Rights Violations. Retrieved: EU: Speak Out Against India's Rights Violationshttps://www.hrw.org › news › 2021/01/11 › eu-speak-o... 

 

Narayan, D. (2018). India’s abuse of women is the biggest human rights violation on Earth. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/27/india-abuse-women-human-rights-rape-girls 

 

National Portal of India. (2022). My government. Retrieved from: https://www.india.gov.in/my-government 

 

Index of Economic Freedom. (2022). India. Retrieved from: https://www.heritage.org/index/country/india 

 

 

Civilian infrastructure has been bombed as well as public monuments such as churches, while blocking external humanitarian aid.  

The Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA) revealed that nearly 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Burmese state forces, more than 34,000 have been burned and another 114,000 beaten, some 18,000 Rohingya women and girls have been raped by the Burmese army and police and more than 115,000 homes have been burned and 113,000 have been destroyed. (ONU, 2019) 

Testimony of a Mayani soldier: This man claims to have received orders to torture, loot and kill innocent people. “We were ordered to gather all the men and shoot them dead,” he says. “The saddest thing was having to kill old men and a woman. (BBC,2022)

i ONU critica los abusos de Birmania contra los derechos humanos de los rohinyá. (2019, 19 diciembre). Agencia Anadolu. Recuperado 24 de agosto de 2022, de https://www.aa.com.tr/es/mundo/onu-critica-los-abusos-de-birmania-contra-los-derechos-humanos-de-los-rohiny%C3%A1/1686605
ii BBC News Mundo. (2022, 25 julio). Myanmar: “Me obligaron a torturar, violar y matar a gente inocente”. Recuperado 24 de agosto de 2022, de https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-62267220 

 

Japan is characterized because of their low unemployment rate, recently it has grown because of the surge of covid cases, even though Japan has the lowest unemployment rate this is due because most people in Japan had job security during the pandemic. Finally Taiwan had a unemployment rate of 3.95% and it is due to inflation that happened during covid. As we can see most of the Asian countries have been affected by covid-19 causing inflation and affecting the economic area (Business Standard, 2022)