ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Human Rights has launched an awareness campaign about women’s rights to inheritance under Islamic jurisprudence and the Constitution. Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari on Friday…
ISLAMABAD: Former Senator Farhatullah Babar has called for a review of the Qisas (retribution) and Diyat (compensation) laws so that pardon can be granted only after court conviction and not before it.…
LAHORE: In spite of a record number of 183 women contesting the July 25 polls, only eight female lawmakers were able to get elected to general seats, according to data released by…
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari held a meeting a UNICEF delegation here on Monday to ensure promotion and protection of the human rights, particularly the rights of women and…
ISLAMABAD: National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) will depute almost 200 observers in 50 districts around the country to monitor the turnout of women, especially in the constituencies where female…
KARACHI: Political parties complying to 5% mandatory allocation of tickets for general seats to their women workers here urged to actively and extensively campaign in support of these female candidates for the…
MOHRI PUR: Men banned women from voting in the village of Mohri Pur sometime around 1947, and they have obeyed ever since — until this year, when changes to Pakistan’s election laws…
LAHORE: Several women rights activists were shocked to learn that not even a single woman had been taken on as a member of the Punjab interim cabinet, reported by a local media outlet.…
RIYADH: The Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia announced support for the women in their professional lives, adding that the kingdom ‘strives for a dynamic community’. The ministry said, “Saudi Arabia supports its…
LAHORE: Underprivileged women can be empowered by equipping them with skills to earn an honourable and dignified living while being at home. This was stated by the speakers during an event organised by…
LAHORE: The ‘Aurat March Lahore’ organised by different women’s rights organisations and collectives on International Women’s Day 2018 on Friday issued a joint list of demands. The demands ranged from various women’s issues…
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Information & Culture and Excise and Taxation Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman on Friday said that the provincial government has promulgated a number of laws in order to ensure the rights…
TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan opposes the rights of women. Speaking after attending a Diwali ceremony,…
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that better grooming, education and protection for girls was their basic right, hence the government and the society is bound to…
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that women are suffering new assaults on their safety and dignity around the world. On the opening day of sixty-first session of the…
NAUSHAHARO FERZOE: Sindh Assembly Member Shahnaz Ansari has said that the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) and Sindh government were committed to ensuring women rights and their inclusion in the electoral system in…
The Senate unanimously passed the ‘Representation of the People’ (Amendment) bill, 2016, introduced by PPP Vice-President Senator Sherry Rehman. The bill ensures that barring women from exercising their right to vote is…
