Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan

In light of the horrific rape cases that have surfaced during the past many years, the federal government has decided to set up anti-rape crisis cells in all districts, which will be supervised by a 42-member Anti-Rape Ordinance Implementation Committee. ...

THE Global Gender Gap Report 2021 brings no glad tidings for Pakistan. Not only is the country still hovering at the bottom of the gender parity index, it has since last year actually slipped a further two notches to 153 ...

ISLAMABAD: The family of 10-year-old Farishta, who was raped and murdered two years ago, on Thursday said that they had been running from pillar to post for justice, but there was still no hope for it. Addressing a press conference ...

KARACHI: The Sindh Commission on the Status of Women (SCSW), government of Sindh, together with Oxfam Pakistan and the Legal Aid Society launched the Sindh Directory of Support Services for Women and Girls Experiencing Violence and Abuse and the Gap ...

KARACHI: Pakistan has been ranked among the worst four countries in the world in gender parity with only Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan faring worse as the country slipped to 153rd out of the 156 countries assessed in a report published ...