Islamabad: The 13th edition of Pakistan Mountain Festival concluded with awarding 28 best mountain development practitioners and conservationists with 4th Pakistan Mountains Pride Awards Monday.
Pandemicâs impact on girls âdamagingâ
By Nicola Daniels
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Cape Town - Teenage pregnancies and abuse are some of the negative effects of worldwide lockdown responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, experts have argued.
The impact on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls has been largely damaging, experts say, as about 194 countries opted to shut down schools and universities.
Lisa Bos, director of government relations at World Vision, a faith-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), and member of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisationâs (Unesco) Covid-19 Global Education Coalition, cites the example of Sierra Leone during the Ebola virus outbreak from 2014 to 2015.