Mehnaz Akber Aziz

Mehnaz Akber Aziz

  • Pakistan’s missing stories

    This representational image shows employees work at their stations at an incubation centre in Lahore. — AFP/FileThe World Economic Forum’s ...

  • Pakistan’s missing stories

    Pakistan’s missing stories

    This representational image shows employees work at their stations at an incubation centre in Lahore. — AFP/FileThe World Economic Forum’s ...

  • Protect our children

    Protect our children

    At federal level, Islamabad Capital Territory Prohibition of Corporal Punishment Act, 2021 was passed in joint session

  • A happier childhood for all

    A happier childhood for all

    National debate is long overdue on what happy childhood means for all children, recognising diverse reality of country

  • Ending child marriage

    Ending child marriage

    Pakistan must revisit history and recognize Quaid-e-Azam’s commitment to eradicating child marriage

  • The malnutrition crisis

    The malnutrition crisis

    Four of ten children under five years of age are stunted, while 17.7 per cent suffer from wasting

  • How can the law help domestic workers?

    Slogans of banning child domestic workers are making headlines once again in public seminars and media, gaining attention of the wider civil society...

  • Protecting children from cybercrime

    Cyber communication has directly or indirectly affected almost all strata of society and all facets of our lives. Now that it is an integral part of...

  • Women, words and the constitution

    One of the landmark moments during the golden jubilee celebrations of the constitution of Pakistan was the realization that the time had come to...

  • Women, inequality and the bar

    Pakistan’s women lawyers got a boost recently when two women lawyers Rabiya Bajwa and Sabahat Rizvi were elected as vice-president and...

  • Safe schools

    We must take a decisive step towards making education safer. Next week governments, UN agencies and civil society organisations from around the...

  • Protecting children

    Today, April 30, marks the International Day to End Corporal Punishment – bringing global attention to the widespread use of the most common form...

  • Torture, children and our inaction

    A barbaric video of a five-year-old boy beaten to death by his teacher at a Pindi-Bhattian madressah took the country by storm. Our state stood...

  • The paradox of reopening schools

    The writer is a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, and chairperson SDGs Child Rights Special Committee.According to a UN report, the...

  • Child Rights in Pakistan

    While world community is commemorating the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child , many child rights...

  • The rights of the Pakistani child

    The United Nations General Assembly in September this year is commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the ‘Convention on the Rights of the...

  • Time for a U-turn

    We are in the middle of an unnecessary confusion over the PM House and/or National University; a royal guest is arriving in Pakistan’s capital and...

  • What we need from China

    What we need from China

    The extraordinary progress that China has made in human development by lifting millions of people out of poverty, despite having the largest...