RESEARCH STUDIES
Early age marriage of girls is not only violation of their right to education but at the same time girls are deprived of their right to childhood, health and choosing husband of their own choice. It can be considered as a dilemma of our society that a woman is shipped into certain type of traditional...
An Overview of Livelihood Patterns and Related Gender Issues in PATA Community of Southern Punjab AWAZ Foundation Pakistan: Center for Development Services (AWAZCDS), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Multan, commenced a study to have a comprehensive overview of livelihood patterns and gender issues attribute to it among PATA communities of Southern Punjab. Before commencement...
With the adoption of 2030 Agenda, on September 25th 2015 by the heads of states of 193 countries under the aegis of United Nation’s General Assembly (UNGA), attention turned to the national level, where our governments at federal and provincial levels, working with a range of stakeholders, and struggling to establish a framework for implementation...
Investing and Addressing Reasons for Girls’ Dropout from Schools in District Muzaffargarh. Download PDF File...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were signed and adopted by 189 countries after the Millennium Declaration in September 2000.2 The further agreement by member states taken place at the 2005 World Summit. These eight time-bound goals are both global and local, tailored by each country to suit specific development needs and provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme...
Peoples’ Perception About Discriminatory Laws & Customary Practices Promoting Violence Against Women
According to the ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights, 120 laws currently prevailed in the country are discriminatory on the basis of religion and customs. These require revisions and amendments in the current discriminatory laws and new legislation against inhuman customary practices to make responses of state just and pluralistic. Present military regime had...
Hudood Qawaneen, Naqais-o-Tabsira: (Hudood laws, flaws and discussion) is an Urdu publication. The topic focused in this 12 page booklet is very sensitive to be discussed, especially where people have no information about human rights, and very limited knowledge of religion, that comes out from a Mullah who is usually an illiterate or semi literate...
Over the period of last four years it was observed that the system itself provides the space to the common people but the implementers lack the political will as will as capacity. For example Citizen Community Boards were introduced to ensure the community participation but the process and procedures for the registration of CCBs was...
While the world is moving towards a global economy in which the local economic and industrial Infrastructure is under threat on the one hand for its integration with the global set up while on the other hand the consumption of local human and material resources has been affected and has caused unemployment and poverty conditions...