An ex-colleague of mine asked me to write something on women in Pakistan and at that very moment, I found myself in a crossroads of thoughts about how and why women have been second class citizens in the world. So, the first thought that crossed my mind was ‘Women Suffrage’, which was about the voting rights of women in America.…
Islamabad: To improve collection, compiling, production and use of standardised data for reporting on the country’s national and international commitments and guiding informed policy on gender equality, the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) and UN Women Pakistan have initiated the development of a National Gender Data Portal. First of its kind in Pakistan, the Portal will fill…
ISLAMABAD: Days after the announcement of delimitation schedule for local government polls in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a massive shake-up in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has redeployed dozens of its officers. A significant feature of the reshuffle is that all the four provinces will now have at least one woman district election commissioner (DEC) for the first time…
