Women’s role in Disaster Risk Reduction

Gender, like governance, is a key cross cutting issue that underlies all aspects of development. It is worthy of our serious and sustained attention. Gender equality does not merely mean equal rights for men and women and non-discrimination based on gender. It also requires empowerment and the achievement of parity of status in participating in and contributing to development.

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Petrograd connection, planning and statecraft:

Saving nations from financial raiders

Every writer on economic themes must at some moment quote Adam Smith. So did the Chicago monetarists when during the last 30 years their plans advised removing safeguards and allowing financial buccaneers to invade. Citing reforms for a free flow of capital, they let people choke on rogue instruments that included the shares, bonds or securities of WorldCom, Enron and AIG.

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Under the growing Washington- Tel Aviv - New Delhi axis:

After Iraq and Afghanistan, Is it Pakistan?

Sir Allama Muhammed Iqbal, one of the greatest poets and thinkers of the last century, once said that “ there would be no peace in the world if there was no peace in Afghanistan”- a deeply entrenched tribal society known for sacrificing precious lives to preserve their rights and dignity.

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Call for pause, giving equal status to the terrorist flag!

During the two day humanitarian pause, the US and UK urged Sri Lanka to extend it. This is the second time the Government made a pause to allow free movement of civilians from the No Fire Zone (NFZ) .

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