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FAISALABAD: The government must provide transgender individuals with their due and strive to protect them by promulgating comprehensive legislation, speakers at a consultative meeting on Tuesday said. Peace and Human Development Foundation director Suneel Malik said the foundation’s free and ...

LAHORE: Speakers at a conference held to mark the National Working Women’s Day on Tuesday noted that women’s contribution to the country’s economy was no longer limited to a few sectors. They said large numbers of women were now entering ...

By Fakhar Durrani ISLAMABAD: The second last position in that annual Gender Gap Index ranking for the last three years suggests Pakistan needs centuries to ensure gender equality. The 2014 data of National Police Bureau’s Gender Crime Centre claims that ...

By Ghausia Rashid Salam Discriminatory attitudes towards females begin at home, in the form of discrimination against the girl child. These are normalised cases of gender-based discrimination, as boys are told not to be a girl if they show ‘too ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among 115 countries which recognise the right to public healthcare yet it discriminates against women, especially the rural population, and fares poorly with South Asian neighbours, reveals an assessment report. The report, “Integration of Health-Related Human Rights ...