KARACHI: The Planning and Development Department of the Government of Sindh and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a Secretariat for the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) initiative in Karachi. The SUN movement brings together people governments, civil society, the United Nations, donors, businesses and researchers in a collective effort to improve nutrition. The […]
Islamabad 11 October, 2016: UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, and UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, commemorated the UN International Day of the Girl Child on 8 October with a cricket day for girls. The event took place at Pakistan Sweet Homes in Islamabad, and more […]
8th October 2016: Pakistan has shown immense resilience in the face of devastating natural disasters and crippling emergencies, time and time again. Today, we are eleven years from the horrible earthquake in 2005 that took thousands of lives; it turned several towns and villages in Northern Pakistan into graveyards with thousands buried under rubble – […]
ISLAMABAD (07 October 2016) – The United Nations (UN) joins people across the country in lauding the Pakistani Government in unanimously approving the much awaited anti-honour killing and anti-rape bills, as a historic success on Thursday. Both bills were originally laid before the Senate in January 2014 and with review, revision and follow-up, have finally […]
The United Nations family in Pakistan joins tens of millions of people in Pakistan and all around the world in mourning the passing of Abdul Sattar Edhi. When the United Nations was created in 1945 it was to “reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person” and all […]
ISLAMABAD (20 June 2016) – The United Nations (UN) joins people across the country in strongly condemning the increasing number of killings in the so-called name of ‘honour’ and urges the Pakistani Government to prevent such killings and to bring those responsible to justice. “Every year, hundreds of women and girls are killed in Pakistan […]
Islamabad, June 2: U.S. Agency for International Development Mission Director John Groarke announced today a new U.S. contribution of $21 million in food assistance to feed malnourished individuals in Pakistan. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will use the U.S. financial contribution to turn approximately 26,000 metric tons of Pakistani government-provided wheat into fortified […]
ISLAMABAD – The World Food Programme (WFP), the Australian High Commission and the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (MNHSRC) have officially launched the Provincial Fortification Alliances of Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, at an event attended by the Minister MNHSRC, Ms Saira Afzal Tarar, High Commissioner of Australia, Ms Margaret Adamson, […]
More than 300,000 patients to benefit from the improved healthcare facilities at Balochistan Institute of Nephro-Urology Quetta QUETTA: Balochistan’s Provincial Ministry of Health and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) marked today the ground-breaking ceremony for improvement and extension of the existing Balochistan Institute of Nephro -Urology Quetta (BINUQ) in Quetta. The project has been identifies […]
ISLAMABAD – The World Food Programme (WFP) has received a contribution of 396 metric tons of Dates from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is one of the largest producers of dates worldwide. The dates will be distributed as part of WFP’s relief assistance programme. Approximately 148,000 registered families will receive the dates between […]
