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PESHAWAR: The United States government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched on Thursday the Women’s Economic Empowerment Activity (WEEA), according to a statement issued by the US Embassy. According to the statement, the five-year initiative, supports the ...

SWAT: There was a time when militants in Swat district restricted women to their houses and banned them from formal education. However, after the security forces eliminated militancy, many local women chose various career paths in line with their skills ...

LAHORE – The global COVID-19 pandemic and the economic situation that followed, has impacted the working class on every level. Among the most at risk are the working women, who for one reason or the other had to take a ...

Islamabad-Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice Barrister Maleeka Bokhari has been selected as World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for five years. The Young Global Leaders of Word Economic Forum is a dynamic community of more than 1,400 members from ...

The Pakistan Women’s Foundation for Peace has lamented discrimination against women in Pakistan, stating that “Though women are in high numbers as home-based workers and in the agriculture sector, their skill sets, market knowledge, and earnings remain low.” In a ...