Tag: women’s empowerment
JI holds male-heavy “women’s empowerment” conference and twitter loses it
Jamat-e-Islami held a women’s empowerment conference yesterday which as usual never caught anyone’s attention, until a picture emerged on the internet. The said picture...
Women must strive to enter the mainstream: President Mamnoon
President Mamnoon Hussain on Saturday urged the youth to keep themselves fully abreast with the fast-paced changes in a technology-savvy world so that they...
BISP, UN Women sign MoU on women empowerment, tackle gender equality
Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UN Women on expanding social protection coverage through improvement in...
Saudi petition seeks ‘full’ rights for women
Thousands of Saudis have signed a petition urging an end to the guardianship system that gives men control over the study, marriage and travel...
Peshawar girl wins international award for working to end violence against...
Shawana Shah, a 23-year-old girl from Peshawar, has won the Mohammad Ali Humanitarian Award 2016.
Shawana Shah received the award for work to end gender-based...
US President Barack Obama writes inspiring essay on feminism
In his most extensive remarks about feminism, President Obama wrote an essay for Glamour magazine in which he reflected on American women’s long fight for equality...
Smashing glass ceilings – Pakistani women making their way into business
If you are a woman working in Pakistan, one thing is for sure is that things don’t get easier.
In our deep-rooted patriarchal society,...
Pakistan must speed up reform, employ more women for growth, says...
Pakistan must speed up reform of the energy sector and bring more women into the labour force if it wants to quicken economic growth...
