ActionAid Pakistan launched a campaign to stop early girl marriage practice which has a serious impact on the lives of young girls who are denied right to have control on their bodies and a consequent bearing on their basic rights of education, health and livelihood.
I don’t think anyone can deny the importance of education to the growth and development of a nation. However, the complacent attitude of our previous and current governments towards this issue is,...
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...
To delete its impression of being a centralist federation, the democratic government decided to purge constitution of dictatorial distortions. It resulted in awarding more autonomy to province to...