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March 31, 2021 By Syed Abbas Hussain Over a year after its outbreak, Covid-19 continues to stalk the globe. Though no country has escaped its wrath, the effects of the pandemic have fallen disproportionately on developing regions. These are places where women and girls, ethnic and religious minorities, residents of congested urban slums, and workers in the informal economy who lack benefits or safety nets are especially vulnerable to the pandemic’s assault on health, livelihoods, individual rights, and personal security. In South Asia, poor nutrition and hygiene, limited access to healthcar...

In March 2020, when the president announced that South Africa would be going into a lockdown, a lot of uncertainty ensued. At the time I had just started working for a non-profit organisation that deals with sexual and reproductive health for adolescent girls and young women in the Klipfontein District.  By chance, I came across the Philippi East Community Action Network (CAN), as it was known at the time. I probed for more information and traced the collective to Cape Town Together on Facebook. A few days later we started our own Site C CAN with a few volunteers as a means of establishing a...

International News Mar 15, 2021 CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — There’s some hope in South Africa that this time the outrage against corruption inspires effective action. Public anger over suspect government contracts worth nearly $900 million for the purchase of supplies to fight COVID-19 may finally bring the South African government to take more decisive steps against corruption, say experts. Africa’s most developed economy is already deeply mired in corruption with a commission of inquiry hearing allegations of widespread graft during the tenure of former president Jacob Zuma. The ne...

School principal from Sindh wins most honest civil servant award Karachi March 3, 2021 Daryan Khatoon Memon, the principal of the Government Girls Lower Secondary School in Sukkur, has been voted as the most honest civil servant of Pakistan at the Integrity Icon of Pakistan Award Ceremony 2020. This campaign annually recognises government officials from across the country for their integrity and honesty. In its fifth consecutive yearly ceremony, more than 100 nominations were screened and vetted by a jury comprising credible professionals from the civil services, academia and civil society ...

The Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology and Accountability Lab inked a memorandum of understanding earlier this week to execute capacity-building initiatives to engage faculty and...