ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s first web TV ‘Maati’, which will provide the country’s youth a platform to share their views on social issues, and a research booklet based on the case studies of students experiencing sexual harassment in educational institutions were launched on Monday by an alliance of different NGOs in Islamabad. In the booklet ‘Feeling Vulnerable in Houses of Learning’, several moving stories of female students were documented from all over the Pakistan. A
ccording to Mohammad Waseem, the CEO of Interactive Resource Center and head of the web TV, the project will mainly serve as a platform for the youth to share their stories of social and development sector. While screening a video film from Maati TV on sexual harassment, Waseem said Pakistani youth were intelligent enough to understand and contribute to the society more productively and the TV was launched with a commitment to give them a forum that could help them sharing their views on multiple social issues.
Sharing the purpose of launching of the booklet, Dr Fouzia Saeed, member National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW), said, “The purpose of the study is to have a quick sense of the level and kind of harassment that is going on in the educational institutions in Pakistan.” Chairperson National Assembly’s Law and Justice Committee Begum Nasim said, “Without the strong commitment by a woman to fight against the evils of the society, no law can be able to protect her.”
“We are living in the male dominant society, therefore, it is the time for the mothers to educate and up bring their sons in a way that they provide their females colleagues an atmosphere in which they can excel equally in their professions,” she added.
