Tag: women empowerment

Women empowerment key to poverty eradication: CM Khattak

  PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak has said that ‘women empowerment’ is a key to poverty eradication, building resilient societies, economies...

Pakistani game development studio leading way for gender equality, women empowerment

ISLAMABAD: The company WeRplay has become the first game development studio in Pakistan to step up its commitment towards improving gender diversity within its business...

Verna: A case study of ‘not all men’ hating the word...

Amidst rumours of a complete ban, the reality of partial ban, cinema owners reluctant at showing the movie at their theatres and censor board cringing away...

PPP govt actively empowering women: information minister

KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said on Wednesday that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government had initiated multiple programmes for women empowerment...

National Women Resource Centre to be established at National Library of...

ISLAMABAD: An agreement to establish a National Women Resource Centre was signed between National Library of Pakistan (NLP) and National Commission on the Status of...

Daycare centres established across Punjab to empower women: minister

LAHORE: Women Development Department Provincial Minister Hameeda Waheeduddin said Tuesday that the Punjab government had established a number of daycare centres across the province,...

Punjab government has launched several programmes for women empowerment: minister

LAHORE: Punjab Women Development Department (PWDD) Minister Hameeda Waheeduddin has said that promotion of female employment is necessary for development and prosperity of the country. She was...

PCSW, PU sign MoU for women’s empowerment

LAHORE: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Punjab Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) and University of the Punjab (PU) for structured...

SC orders reopening of WCCs

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ordered to open four Women Crisis Centres (WCCs) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) that were shut-down in 2010 after...

Women empowerment: Civil society urges govt to make effective legislations

By: Sawan Khaskheli The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), Family Planning Association of Pakistan (FPAP), Soormi Development Society and others on Wednesday organised several programmes and...

Bilawal for more legislations to empower women

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has vowed to take measures to ensure women empowerment in the country. Bilawal also endorsed...

CM chairs meeting on women empowerment

Urges women to exhibit their talent in practical fields     Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday presided over a meeting to review the steps taken...

‘Pakistani women most politically empowered’

  KARACHI: Pakistani women are more politically empowered than their female counterparts in the other South Asian countries as about 21 per cent parliamentarians in...

PCSW and PWPC collaboration: aims to review, amend gender discriminatory laws

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Women Development Department Hameeda Waheed ud Din on Tuesday said that the women caucus could play an effective role in...

Women shopkeepers get separate stalls at Sunday Bazaars

  LAHORE: The authorities concerned have reserved separate stalls for women shopkeepers at Sunday Bazaars across the province under a women package. Punjab Minister for Women...

USAID’s gender equity program fosters educational empowerment for women

American Ambassador David Hale spoke on Thursday at an event sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Gender Equity Program to...