ISLAMABAD: Federal Secretary for Ministry of Human Rights (MOHR) Rabia Javeri Agha on Monday said they are endeavouring to raise awareness of women rights and ensure their access to get help in case of domestic violence or any other issue especially during COVID 19. Agha said that according to World Health Organisation one out of three women in the world…
The role of female leaders during the pandemic has received a great deal of attention in the global media. The prime minister of New Zealand has received the most praise for not just flattening the Covid-19 curve, but annihilating it altogether. Other countries with women leaders who have raised the bar include Germany, Finland, Taiwan and Iceland. Canada’s chief public…
The annual report for the year 2019 by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) should serve as an eye-opener to those who fail to see the worsening situation of human rights in Pakistan. An important message from this report is that the most vulnerable segments of society are being neglected and their voices are not heard. This has made…
On the eve of International Workers Day on Thursday, the Women Democratic Front (WDF) called for workers action committees and a united Left to fight for the health and lives of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In their statement issued in connection with Labour Day, leaders of the left-leaning women’s group said the global pandemic has laid the inefficiency of…
On International Labour Day observed on Friday, the Hari Welfare Association (HWA) lamented that across rural areas of Sindh, workers in agriculture farms and brick kilns, who were in millions, hardly received Rs6,000 per month against the Rs17,500 minimum wage promised by the Sindh government for unskilled workers in 2019. The peasants’ rights body also said that the COVID-19 brought…
ISLAMABAD: More than a quarter of Pakistan’s women workforce have been fired or suspended as the lockdown to curb the novel coronavirus came into effect, while a majority of those laid off reported they had not been paid their dues, a survey report released Friday indicated. According to a survey of 904 respondents conducted by the Free and Fair Election…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan appointed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Shibli Faraz as the new information minister and Lt-Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa as his special assistant on information and broadcasting, removing Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan from the post with immediate effect. “The Prime Minister has been pleased to remove Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan from the office of Special Assistant…
Kashmir Women’s Movement (KWM) and Organisation of Kashmir Coalition (OKC) organised a COVID-19 KASHMIR WOMEN’S CONFERENCE via video link in which included politicians, lawyers and human rights defenders, academics and jurists. Among others, who took part in the conference included: Dr Shireen Mazari – Federal Minister for Human Rights, Pakistan; Shamim Shawl – Permanent Representative to the United Nations, IMWU;…