Gender Focus
Exploring connections between socio-economic factors and violence against women
Mr Salman Sufi, is the Senior Member (Law and Order) of the Special Monitoring Unit (SMU) within the Punjab Chief Minister's Office. In the first part of this interview Mr Sufi explains the role of …
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Ms Fouzia Vaqar is the Chairperson of the Provincial Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW), Punjab. In this interview she talks about the role of PCSW. She discusses the problem of women's …
In conversation with Fatimah Ihsan As part of the wider study on Work, Women and Violence in South Asia, over the last few months Fatimah Ihsan and her team of researchers have been carrying out …
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In Nepal women continue to pay the price for the country’s decade old insurgency that ended in 2006 by Suti Saharia Human rights and anti–trafficking activists in Nepal say that thousands of women …
Reflections on a recent visit to Lahore by Jon Gregson In 2000, I was living in Kathmandu in Nepal and working at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). It was an …
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Menuka Thapa is Chairperson of Raksha Nepal, an NGO in Nepal which since 2004 has worked to protect women and young girls working in the so called 'informal entertainment sector' from trafficking and …
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