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Click to expand Image A demonstration in Islamabad, Pakistan, on International Women's Day, March 8, 2023. 2023 Nabila Lalee/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Out of 127 million registered voters in Pakistan, 10 million more men than women have registered to vote in the general election scheduled for February 8, 2024. This is a large gender gap in a country in which women make up 49 percent of the population. Although voting is a constitutional right for all adults in Pakistan, in past electio...

The more Amanda Carling learned about the colonial laws that took children, resources and economic opportunities away from Indigenous people, the more she wanted to dismantle it.

The National Centre for Indigenous Excellence (NCIE), at 180 George Street in Redfern, has served the local Aboriginal community for 16 years.

“The elders were very relaxed after the main talking points of the shura and seemed to enjoy sitting around drinking chai and talking about smal

The tip of Cape York has been shut off to visitors, and Local Elders have called for toilet upgrades in the area, after reports of tourists defecating, littering and leaving graffiti on sacred sites. Michael Solomon, chairman of the Gudang/Yadhaykenu Aboriginal Corporation, says its insulting that locals and volunteers have to clean up the mess left by tourists visiting Country. "They make their own tracks and drive down the beach, they come with quad bikes and pig dogs," he said, adding that ...