June2021

  • Women in Alternative Dispute Resolution Network Launched

    Women in Alternative Dispute Resolution Network Launched

    June 30th, 2021 (Lahore, Pakistan): The ADR Initiative and Women in Law Initiative Pakistan jointly held a ‘meet and greet’ session for female lawyers/students interested in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) on Saturday, 26th June 2021. In-house experts and team of ADR gave a brief overview of what ADR practice...
  • World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Harmful Online Content

    World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Harmful Online Content

    Leaders in Australia, the UK, Indonesia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Singapore and other public and private sector members have come together to collaborate and share best practices to reduce the spread of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, violent extremist and terrorist content, and health misinformation New report by the Forum...
  • WHO issues first global report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use

    WHO issues first global report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, according to new WHO guidance published today. The report, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, is...
  • Leaders Summit Calls For Sustainable Recovery

    Leaders Summit Calls For Sustainable Recovery

    More than 20,000 business leaders joined Heads of State, civil society leaders and UN Chiefs to call for increased corporate ambition to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and net-zero by 2050 during extraordinary Leaders Summit.   UNITED NATIONS, New York, USA: UN Secretary-General António Guterres...
  • The Big Heart Foundation Highlights Non-profits impacting vulnerable groups of refugees

    The Big Heart Foundation Highlights Non-profits Impacting Vulnerable Groups of Refugees

    At a virtual panel discussion organized by The Big Heart Foundation in collaboration with UNHCR as a follow-up to the fifth Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support The three non-profits, RefuSHE, INARA and The Lotus Flower, were awarded a special AED 1.1 million grant instituted by TBHF-NAMA...
  • Dedicated Digital Assets, Baseline Study on the Status of Women’s Representation in Law in Pakistan 2020-21 Launched

    June 21st, 2021 (Islamabad, Pakistan): A one-stop dedicated digital portal and app titled, ‘LawyHER.pk’ was launched earlier today. This portal/app is part of the ‘Increasing Women’s Representation in Law’ Project by the Federal Ministry of Law and Justice in partnership with Group Development Pakistan and Women in Law Initiative Pakistan...
  • One in 100 deaths is by suicide

    One in 100 deaths is by suicide

    Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHO’s latest estimates, published today in “Suicide worldwide in 2019”.  Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer – or war and homicide.  In 2019, more than 700 000...
  • “Women uphold the burden of the war the most”

    “Women uphold the burden of the war the most”

    A Syrian photographer who came to worldwide attention when he rescued a child injured in a devastating car bomb has released his first documentary. Abd Al-Kader Habak’s 54-minute film, Her Stories, documents the struggles, successes and dreams of three women from Syria. It will premiere at the Oakville Festivals...
  • CodeGirls Pakistan makes it on the radar as a driving force for inclusion of women in tech

    June 14th, 2021, (Karachi, Pakistan): CodeGirls held a digital event to mark three years of empowering girls through coding and business skills. The event was organized to reprise the purpose of the program, share the journey since its inception, and to gauge feedback from industry experts for further improvement....
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