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Islamabad: National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), established with a broad mandate and powers to take actions, has addressed 274 cases of women related issues since December2015 to October 2018. The government was committed to ensuring Protection and Promotion of ...

Islamabad: Punjab Information Minster Fayaz-ul-Hassan Chohan has said that empowerment of women is Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s top priority. “Women participation in all sectors or their economic participation is very necessary for success of the country,” he told this agency. ...

HYDERABAD: Women leaders of the Home-Based Labour Union Hyderabad at a programme on Wednesday called for implement­ing the laws on home-based wor­kers, mostly women, and ensuring provision of facilities to them. They said that they were hard workers who wanted ...

The country’s first-ever gender audit of labour laws may not have turned up any major surprises for those familiar with the existing disparities between male and females in the workplace but they still serve as an eye-opener. As suspected, women’s ...

The Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid (LHRLA) and the Sindh Women Development Department has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at strategic collaboration for the protection of women’s rights in the province, to evolve a framework for ...