Sakina’s swollen face, bruised cheeks, and marks on her hands and feet point to the obvious – she has been subjected to domestic violence. Her ordeals are shared by many women in the country, and her story reflects and answers to an extent why women do not leave their abusive marriages. Sitting still with disheveled…
DetailsAt the age when Hira should be getting up early in the morning and getting ready to go to school, she wakes up at the crack of dawn to go to work. Hira is a young child; her demeanor and physique display that she is not more than 14 years of age. Her childhood has…
DetailsNot a day goes by that the country hears about a woman being killed mercilessly. It is the dark reality of this patriarchal society where a woman is expected to be subservient and assimilate to the conditions that are deemed acceptable by it. The ones who rebel, more often than not, end up losing their…
DetailsHailing from the famine-struck region of Tharparkar, Bhagwaandas has defied all challenges to achieve his current merits. His story is that of passion, persistence, and resilience that made him come out to be victorious against all odds. Bhagwaandas suffered from polio and lost the ability to walk very early on in his childhood. Instead of…
DetailsWith an eerie silence surrounding the small house, sits a ghost-like figure with barely enough flesh on her face. When asked to narrate her story, Sidra rounds up just enough energy to speak through her parched lips. Looking closely at her one sees the hollowness in her eyes. She is young, but the years have…
DetailsShaheena (25), a young and enthusiastic journalist, lived with her four sisters and mother in the province of Balochistan. The absence of a patriarch left the burden of the family on her. She was smart, talented, and extremely ambitious. Her slender figure made her look deceivingly fragile which was rather convincingly overpowered by her unfaltering…
DetailsEnhancing Women’s Political and Electoral Participation (EWPEP) is a 12-month project funded by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. EWPEP aims to enhance the electoral empowerment of and enjoyment of rights by women in Pakistan by decreasing the gap between the number of male and female voters in the districts where the gender…
DetailsISLAMABAD, January 13, 2022: A national collective of women workers employed in formal sectors titled Women Workers Alliance (WWA) and 13 Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCIs) including those representing federal and provincial capitals resolved to work together to ameliorate the working conditions for women as a means to improve economic growth of the country.
DetailsRights and Advancement of Marginalized People (RAMP) is a 30-month program funded by the United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). The project’s goal is to strengthen local civil society organizations (CSO) working to advance and protect the rights of marginalized communities. It is designed to award grants enabling…
DetailsThe 10-month project aims to enhance civic space, particularly media freedoms that are critical for the promotion and protection of the rights of vulnerable populations across all 536 tehsils/sub-districts in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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