HYDERABAD: Speakers at a seminar have said that one month jail is a nominal sentence for the people arranging child marriages that cast negative impact on society. They were speaking at the seminar organised by Sujag Sansar Organisation (SSO) to ...
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Training workshop KARACHI: White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan (WRCP), in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS) of Germany, organised a training workshop for women journalists under the Continued Professional Education (CPE) programme at a local hotel on Wednesday. HBS Country ...
Read More »‘Govt committed to women emancipation’
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said the government is committed to women emancipation and protect them from all kinds of exploitation and discrimination. In his message on the International Women Day being observed worldwide including in Pakistan, the President ...
Read More »‘Education of flood affected girls on stake’
SHAHEED BENAZIRABAD: The Forum for Human Rights Pakistan has said that 5,000 girls would remain out of schools as the Education Department has miserably failed to rehabilitate damaged schools in the area even after two years of floods and rains. ...
Read More »As elections draw closer, (Trans) gender equality is nowhere in sight
By: Rabia Ali KARACHI: The process of voter verification is in full swing in the city but one group – which had been led to believe that they would be standing in a separate line to put their thumb on ...
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