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Society for Appraisal and Women Empowerment in Rural Areas (SAWERA) is a human rights organization, NGO in KPK and Tribal Regions, Pakistan. It works for the welfare of women and children. It was founded in 2004 and formally registered in 2008 by the human rights defender Noorzia Afridi and Fareeda Afridi and some other like minded women. It ...
In July 2020, NCSW and UN women Pakistan launched Young Women in Pakistan: Status Report 2020 according to which 29% of young married women face controlling behaviors by husbands, 15% of them have experienced physical violence and 4% have exposed to sexual violence by anyone other than spouse, while 14% of currently married women have faced ...
The status of women in Pakistan varies across classes, regions and the rural/urban divide due to socioeconomic differences and the impact of tribal and feudal social traditions. Gender Concerns International reports that women's rights in Pakistan have improved overall, with the increasing number of educated and literate women. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Although education for women in Pakistan is a right since 1976 there is still a sizable gender gap, specifically in higher education for women. From data collected in 2003-2004 enrollment of women in bachelor's degree programs was 43.5% as compared to their male counterparts who had an enrollment of 56.49%.
Women's Parliamentary Caucus (WPC) is a non-partisan informal forum for women parliamentarians of Pakistan. It was established on 21 November 2008 through a unanimous resolution passed by the Women Parliamentarians beyond party lines. [60] Former Speaker National Assembly of Pakistan Dr. Fehmida Mirza is the patron in-chief of the caucus. [61] Dr.
Afiya Shehrbano Zia (Urdu: عافیہ شہربانو ضیا) is a Pakistani feminist researcher, writer and activist based in Karachi. [1] She is the author of "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan"(Sussex Academic Press, 2018) [2] [3] and several published articles on women, secularism and religion.
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's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several method, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, equal status in society, better livelihood and training.