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ISLAMABAD: Around 8,960 women are expected to gain direct and indirect benefits from `Creative Entrepreneurship for Women (CREW) Programme’. Pakistan Stone Development Company and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation plan to jointly launch the programme with the objective to empower women for business development and entrepreneurship through Marble Mosaic, Craft and Inlay training. As per [...]

By: Cesare Baccheschi LAHORE: The Women’s Development Department, in the first week of July, launched an initiative to archive crimes against women in the province. The archive will initially have information on three categories of crimes against women… gender based, ...

By: Schezee Zaidi Islamabad: Up to one million women across Pakistan will benefit from UK support to help protect them from violence and increase their participation in politics, the economy, and decision-making, the UK’s Development Secretary Justine Greening announced Friday. ...

Provincial Secretary for Women Development Irum Bukhari has said that encouragement of women for participation in the national development and protection of their rights is utmost essential. She was addressing the meeting of First Punjab Women Empowerment Working Group held ...

KARACHI: Global Compact Pakistan and Employers Federation of Pakistan launched Seven Principles of Women Empowerment under the theme ‘Equality Means Business’, at a ceremony here on Sunday. The seven principles urged business, academia and civil society to empower women so ...