Advocacy and Legal Aid for Religious Minorities (ALARM) was a 34-month initiative funded by the European Union. The program aimed to strengthen organizational systems of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), including training and mentoring on the human rights information and documentation system (HURIDOCS) to enhance the HRCP publications’ quality.
DetailsCVP had the following three objectives: Strengthened voice (policy advocacy) Enhanced capacity (organizational development and targeted trainings) Improved accountability (citizens’ oversight and public-private partnerships) CVP awarded 364 grants to 224 civil society organizations for projects that covered 26 thematic areas and 2.6 million people were benefitted from the project. The grants were awarded through a…
DetailsPromoting the Human Rights, and Electoral Participation of People with Disabilities (PWD), was a two-year project funded by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor — United States Department of State.
DetailsThis publication provides a wide range of objective election-related information of 272 National Assembly constituencies including general and voting population, gender gap on electoral rolls, voter density, polling stations’ turnout, political parties vote banks, margin of victory, invalid votes, election results assessment, findings of election day observation. The results of the forensic audit of the…
DetailsThis publication is the outcome of FAFEN’s Election Day Observation in 270 National Assembly constituencies with the help of 17,725 trained and non-partisan citizen observers. The ten-chapter report includes the observation findings on pre-voting proceedings, arrangements and staffing at polling stations, voting process, result management process, election day security, campaigning and canvassing on election day,…
DetailsWomen’s Action for Better Workplaces (WAction) was a project funded by the Embassy of Netherlands to enhance the capacities of women workers, and organizations to negotiate, and advocate with employers,
DetailsISLAMABAD, October 25, 2018: There is an immediate need to review the existing labour laws, unify them, and make them consistent with Pakistan’s constitutional and international obligations and provide guarantees to workers, particularly women. This was recommended in the first-ever Gender Audit of Pakistan’s Labour Laws, shared in a ceremony here, today. The gender audit…
DetailsISLAMABAD, October 18, 2018: Women Action for Better Workplaces (WAction), a project of Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA), shared the findings of its Monitoring of Workplace Report in a convention here on Thursday that speaks about the dismal situation of enforcement of Labour laws in Pakistan. According to these findings, 52 percent of…
DetailsAttitudinal, Environmental Barriers Hinder Transgender People, Women & PWDs from Observing General Elections 2018 Attitudinal, Environmental Barriers Hinder Transgender People, Women & PWDs from Observing General Elections 2018 ISLAMABAD, September 25, 2018: Despite progressive legislative and policy measures to facilitate participation of transgender people, women and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the electoral processes, these…
DetailsISLAMABAD, May 24, 2018: Unprecedented efforts of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) and civil society in registering eligible-age women have successfully led to an unparalleled increase of 4,307,553 women on the electoral rolls in the last seven months. This increase indicates the success of the ECP’s Women NIC…
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