After years of shouting slogans and sitting in conferences, seminars and trainings where we talk and talk and yet talk about the emancipation of women rights, we become de-sensitized to feel the...
In a country stained with staunch patriarchal mindset, values and systems it is not easy to break the internal shackles at a personal level. It is strikingly easy to shout slogans, attend trainings...
Islamabad: Thursday, March 29, 2012: While condemning prolonged delay in passage of Hindu Marriage Registration Act, Scheduled Caste Hindus especially women gathered here to lodge a protest against consequential social discrimination they are bound to face in absence of a law to protect their matrimonial rights.
Helpless we are not Or powerless any more, We are masters of our destiny! You can control us, no more, no more! Gone are the days when we could be driven You can oppress us, no more, no more! We are...
ActionAid Pakistan is celebrating International Women Day 2012 with a zeal to bring forth issues of women living in far off areas of Pakistan. In this context, ActionAid Pakistan and its local partners working in different regions of Pakistan have conceived a collective plan to commemorate IWD in a more vigorous and effective way. 'Early Girl Marriage' issue has been taken up as a striking theme to work upon. Moreover ActionAid Pakistan is committed to launch women focused campaigns on 'Women's right to land and 'Promoting sustainable agriculture-linking practices to policy' for year 2012.
In a society where women are not treated equally, life for a girl child becomes discriminatory, unjust and considerably miserable. Such is the case in most parts of Pakistan where girls are inhumanly...
I joined ActionAid Pakistan in November 2010 when the devastating flood had just hit the country and its impact was still unrolling. ActionAid had initiated a timely and well-coordinated emergency...
ActionAid Pakistan has planned a series of events and activities to mark the one year anniversary of the 2010 floods that caused massive devastation in our country. The commemoration of "floods - one...
