Protecting children
July 10, 2014
Pakistan likes to see itself as a bastion of family values, but this is in large part an illusion — or more properly, a self-deception.
Gender Issues
18-month-old girl sexually assaulted
July 9, 2014
HARIPUR: An infant was allegedly sexually assaulted in a village of union council Dheenda, said the police on Tuesday. Eighteen-month-old Noreen Bibi was lying in
‘Rural women still dependent on unskilled birth attendants’
May 20, 2014
KARACHI: There is a major portion of rural Pakistan where women are still dependent on unskilled birth attendants. Only 16 percent of the poorest women
Reproductive rights: ‘Universal access to reproductive health crucial’
May 15, 2014
LAHORE: Activists and women rights’ advocates from 15 countries urged the need for universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Pakistan
Candlelight vigil held for abducted Nigerian girls
May 13, 2014
WAH CANTT: A candlelight vigil was held at the ancient Buddhist site of Dharmarjika Stupa near Taxila on Monday for the early and safe recovery
Five jirga members nabbed in Vani case
May 12, 2014
MANSEHRA: The police arrested five members of a jirga and recovered two sisters who were being handed over to their rivals as vani to settle
Pakistan ‘most perilous place’ for mums in South Asia
May 7, 2014
ISLAMABAD: Though Pakistan has halved maternal mortality, the state is the toughest place in South Asia to be a mother, says a Mothers’ Index that
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