HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

Without policy change, these countries risk falling short of achieving sustainable development by 2030, UN report warns

Geneva/Rome – Without a renewed commitment to policy change, commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs) are by 2030 set to lag behind countries with more diverse economies in their social and economic achievements, UNCTAD and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said in a report issued on 11 December 2017.

Developing countries that are commodities-dependent are set to lag behind countries with more diverse economies, unless there is a renewed commitment to policy change. Photo from FAO.

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Human Wrongs Watch

By Dr Ravi P Bhatia*

11 Dec 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service — The world today is a complex amalgam of violence, conflicts on one side and consumerism and rich lifestyles of a section of people on the other.

**Photo: An electronics store in a shopping mall in Jakarta (2004) | Author: Jonathan McIntosh | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Human Wrongs Watch

By Zofeen Ebrahim*

Station House Officer Nazima Mushtaq speaking to a survivor at the VAWC. Photo courtesy of VAWC

“You can never get over the physical and psychological mutilation that scores of women go through every day in our society,” says Jawed, who is currently managing the new state-of-the-art all-women Violence Against Women Centre (VAWC) in Multan, in Southern Punjab. Before this she was working in the Punjab government’s social welfare department and managing shelters for women across the province.