Governance

HRW has demanded that prosecutions must span ranks – from officers to mob leaders – alongside reforms to curb corruption and bolster digital rights.

As protests grow, human rights defenders are calling on Pakistan’s new administration to take immediate steps.

The body plays a central role in reviewing project proposals, approving budgets, and setting the inter-governmental agenda for regional cooperation.

If the framework is standardised nationally and backed with logistics, cold-chain infrastructure and digital procurement platforms, it could become a transformative element in India’s food-economy ecosystem.

The mission emphasised that “standing with Afghan women” requires more than symbolic gestures: it requires resources, policy pressure, and the international will to ensure that women in Afghanistan can live with dignity and safety.

It demands not just emergency medical resources, but long-term planning – from urban infrastructure to water governance – to break the cycle of mosquito-borne disease.

In the meantime, civil society will likely continue pressing for accountability, especially in light of RTI-documented abuses.

Labour economists caution against reading the headline numbers uncritically. They note that a large portion of India’s workforce remains informal, underpaid, and without stable contracts.