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Rehaai focuses on low-income families and the daily issues women face in society including, second marriage, child marriage, access to education, domestic violence and economic exclusion. Kashf's Managing Director, Roshaneh Zafar says, Rehaai is a tribute to all the courageous women entrepreneurs in Pakistan, who have struggled against all odds ...
Website. www.ncsw.gov.pk. National Commission on Status of Women (NCSW) (Urdu: قومی کمیشن برائے وقار نسواں) is a Pakistani statutory body established by the President Pervez Musharraf, under the XXVI Ordinance dated 17 July 2000. [1] It is an outcome of the national and international commitments of the Government of ...
Female entrepreneurs. American entrepreneur, television host and media executive Oprah Winfrey receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama in 2013. Finnish entrepreneur Armi Ratia (1912–1979), founder of the Marimekko textile and home decorating company. Female entrepreneurs are women who organize and manage an ...
Begum Ra'ana Laiquat Ali Khan (Founder of APWA) [1]. The All Pakistan Women's Association, or APWA, (Urdu: آل پاکستان ویمنز ایسوسی ایشن) as it is commonly known, is a voluntary, non-profit and non-political Pakistani organisation whose fundamental aim is the promotion of moral, social and economic welfare of the women of Pakistan.
Women in Pakistan make up 48.76% of the population according to the 2017 census of Pakistan. [3] Women in Pakistan have played an important role in Pakistani history [4] and have had the right to vote since 1956. [5] In Pakistan, women have held high office including Prime Minister, Speaker of the National Assembly, Leader of the Opposition, as ...
Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (22 July 1915 – 11 December 2000) was a Bengali Pakistani politician from Bengal, diplomat and author. [1] She was the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London. [2] She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco from 1964 to 1967, and was also a delegate to the United Nations [1] debating ...
Feminism in Pakistan refers to the set of movements which aim to define, establish, and defend the rights of women in Pakistan.This may involve the pursuit of equal political, economic, and social rights, alongside equal opportunity. [1][2][3] These movements have historically been shaped in response to national and global reconfiguration of ...
Website. www.munibamazari.com. Muniba Mazari Baloch (Urdu: منیبہ مزاری; born 3 March 1987, also known as the Iron Lady of Pakistan[1]) is a Pakistani activist, anchor artist, model, singer and motivational speaker. She became the National Ambassador UN Women Pakistan by BBC in 2015. She also made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for ...