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The Women Development Department (WDD) of the Punjab government has become proactive in working towards making work spaces more accommodating for women. This is a refreshing new initiative which adds to the current government’s plan of making the society more ...

A Senate committee has been informed by the NGO Sahil that there was a 32 percent increase in cases of child sexual abuse in the first six months of 2018 as compared to the same period the previous year. The ...

AFTER much delay, the KP government has finally approved the appointment of its first provincial anti-harassment ombudsperson. Sindh and Punjab had already appointed their respective ombudsperson since the passing of the Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act in ...

While the advent of social media has had huge outreach in Pakistan, allowing easier connection to rural or neglected regions, it has also brought in new mediums of abuse and harassment- which grow faster than the time it takes for ...

When Pakistan Television anchorperson Tanzeela Mazhar filed a case against the head of her department, an Inquiry Committee was set up to look into the matter. But, instead of properly investigating the issue, and questioning the accused, the committee asked Tanzeela ‘why she had ...