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Purpose
This exploratory study aims to explore the Pakhtun pregnant women's experiences/issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Design/methodology/approach
This research is based on interviews.


Findings
This research found that plummeting medical services pose not only serious health risks to the Pakhtun women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) but expose them to social and cultural challenges resulting in severe mental health issues. This study also found that the policies adopted by the Government of Pakistan for tackling COVID-19 completely threw off track basic health services that both men and women require in times of health emergencies.


Originality/value
This paper is 100% original research based on an exploratory study.

UN peacekeepers serve under harsh and dangerous conditions to help and support the most vulnerable people in conflict zones. The UN recognizes the importance of gender responses in peacekeeping engagements. It has expanded the role and contribution of women in peacekeeping and considers their role critical to enhancing overall peace and security. This paper, therefore, aims to study the cost-benefit analysis of the UN peacekeepers in terms of their services. The study is based on qualitative research using Pakistani female peacekeepers as a case study to draw analysis based on informal conversation/interviews with the former female peacekeepers, officers, and trainers. It also examines the current UN peacekeeping training module. This paper argues that the cost and benefits of the peacekeepers should be in line with the services required and concluded that focusing on peacekeeping operations is impractical without proper training and facilitation.

Bibliography Entry
Naz, Farah. 2021. "UN Female Peacekeepers: An Analysis in Terms of their Services." Margalla Papers 25 (2): 121-129.

Global opening of the space by means of economic globalization, regardless of its repeated promises, is lacking in commonly assumed uniform effects. This division is more pronounced in the modern production organization, where capital is locally unbound and free to move, but consequences of the move are grounded in locality and bound to stay. Therefore, it is increasingly important to understand the new workplace arrangements and the changing nature of associated economic responsibilities in a global system of production organization. This research is significant at this moment in time when there is a persistent and a substantial increase in female home-based work around the globe. One sign of the growing awareness about this problem is that many international brands are trying to address this issue in their supply chains through the introduction of ethical trading initiatives. Articulating a qualitative case study of the football industry of Pakistan, this research highlights that there is a clear gap between the theoretical stance on home-based work and the inner world view of the actors involved. Most of the academic and policy-oriented judgements on the issue of home-based work and economic responsibilities are Western-centric and homeworkers have limited meaning-generating and meaning-negotiating capacities in these existing debates. Consequently, global extraterritorial messages that are divorced from local everyday living experiences of homeworkers, rebound and cause more suffering despite good intentions. This study questions the existing approaches towards home-based work and presents an alternative discourse that stems from voicing the concerns and experiences of female homeworkers, which are too often voiceless groups. The underlying assumption is that exploring the multiplicity of contexts in which female homework is performed could facilitate a holistic understanding of the uniqueness of women's position in the international division of labour. It is argued that entrenched and pronounced issues of ...

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1. Einführung -- 2. Konsum: Unterschiedliche Perspektiven und akademische Aufgaben -- 3. Konsum in der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte -- 4. Konsum, Lebensstile und Geschmack -- 5. Auffälliger Konsum -- 6. Kultur, Werbung und Konsum -- 7. Geschlecht und soziale Beziehungen des Konsums -- 8. Geld, Konsum und Glück -- 9. In Zeiten der Globalisierung: Schenken und die McDonaldisierung des Konsums.