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A dialogue of the ordinary
There are at least seven critical aspects of governance that call for an urgent and collective response
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A new dawn is possible
A prerequisite for progress is willingness to acknowledge one’s failures
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Justice for sanitation workers
The sanitation workers of Pakistan are treated with cruelty, inhumanity and indignity
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Unlocking the doors to progress
Most workers in Pakistan do not receive even the entitled minimum wage and have little access to banking services
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Need for child protection reforms
Currently, the police, professionals and citizens of Pakistan have no obligation to report an incident of child abuse
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Austerity begins at home
Pakistan violates Article 38(a) of the Constitution by purposely promoting extreme inequality
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EOBI: a poverty manufacturing factory
The existing EOBI, a bureaucratic institution of colonial mindset, needs to be radically restructured
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Pampering the rich, pulverising the poor
The government has devised numerous ways to disguise the ‘charity’ it gives to the rich
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Sinking in our own sewage — and the way out
In Pakistan 99% of raw municipal sewage and industrial effluent is dumped into sea and other water bodies
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Child abuse — a ‘duty to report’
Existing plethora of child protection commissions, authorities, bureaus and ministries have little to contribute