Tag: Ngos

Pro-VC protesters tell NGOs to mind their own business

Members of civil society and lawyers’ community staged a protest resenting meddling with the affairs of University of Peshawar by certain non-governmental organisations. The...

Owning destitute kids: Sindh turns to NGOs

Acting on a high court order to provide shelter to street children, the Sindh government has decided to engage prominent non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for...

‘Govt should allow NGOs to work in rain-hit areas’

The Awami Jamhoori Party (AJP) - a nationalist party of Sindh - working in the rain-hit areas of the province including Badin district, has...

Israel to vote on bill probing NGOs

Israeli MPs were on Tuesday to vote on a controversial law that would see parliament set up committees to investigate human rights groups accused...

PAC seeks audit reports from NGOs

Expressing displeasure over the extension in contract of Saeed-ur-Rehman, member finance CDA, despite his involvement in National Logistic Cell scam, the monitoring and implementation...

NGOs demand new social contract

LAHORE - The Aman Ittehad, a group of more than 200 non-governmental organisations (NGO), organised a media briefing at the Lahore Press Club on Monday. The briefing highlighted the main and basic objectives of the New Social Contract in Pakistan. Presenting the details and need for a new social contract, Irfan Mufti, convener, Aman Ittehad Punjab, said that the economic, political and social problems and growing insecurity needs a serious redefinition of state's role and its

Protest-savvy NGOs leave a distressed woman in the lurch

KARACHI - Sakina Nautkani, a woman camped on the pavement outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) since the past eight months, seemed adrift while dozens of women's rights activists came to protest on International Women's Day, and went home after their shift was over. Not a single one of them came to ask why Sakina was there. "No, I have never heard of such a day," Sakina innocently told Pakistan Today, even after multiple demonstrations held to celebrate women and their achievements,

NGOs launch web TV on sexual harassment

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
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Others may also be in danger: NGOs

LAHORE - NGO's expressed their concern on Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's assassination and fear that Asiya's blasphemy case, which had instigated certain groups against the governor, had also provoked the condemnation of human rights organizations that stood up against the blasphemy law.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) was first to condemn the assassination of Taseer, expressing grief and alarm at his murder and calling it a manifestation of growing intolerance in

NGOs mark day against gender violence

LAHORE: Shirakt Gah, South Asia Partnership Pakistan and Kashf Foundation along with other non-governmental organisations (NGO) organised a walk and solidarity rally at the Lahore Press Club to mark the International Women Rights Defenders Day.
The participants carried banners and placards demanding an end to all forms of violence against women and acts of harassment against human rights defenders. November 29 is a day of recognition for human rights activists when activism,