Pakistan Catholic Women's Organization Lahore organized one day Para Legal Education Training Workshop at Youhanabad, Lahore

Lahore, Pakistan: May 13, 2010, (PCTV Newsdesk)


Pakistan Catholic Women’s Organization Lahore organized one day Para Legal Education Training Workshop at Youhanabad on April 8, 2010 with the support of Community advance Program (CAP).Its aims were to enhance the capacity building of the women through the training and encouraged the women to maintain an active role in their respective areas to address the challenges concerning women’s rights through fact finding and reporting of women’s rights violations. Following topics were discussed during the workshop.

• PCWO introduction and membership criteria (Ms. Shaheen Yousaf Lahore)
• Introduction of PLE and Workshop objective (Ms. Shaheen Yousaf)
• Current situation of the women in Pakistan (Mrs. Nagina Kaleem Den Assistance Director CAP)
• Struggle for the Women’s and Movements (Ms. Shaheen Yousaf Lahore)
• Discriminatory laws and customary practices) (Advocate Riaz Anjum)
• Rights’ defense mechanism in Pakistan (Advocate Riaz Anjum)
• Fact Finding and report writing (Ms. Sumaira Yousaf  CWO member)

The resource persons shared their views on the above mentioned topics and said that women were the most victimized and marginalized group in Pakistan and suffering great challenges in all fields. Women become victims of serious crimes like abduction, rape, gang rape, forced marriages, or death by acid throwing, or by stove bursts, for the reasons of not bringing enough dowry, or merely to deprive them of inheritance. The problem of widespread impunity is essentially cultural and social. Sometimes, even murders are committed under the vicious, immoral practice known as honor killing.

 It’s an urgent need that women should be educated and aware regarding their rights and to take part a vital role in decision making process at all level and encouraged the women to keep knocking the door of the justice with dedication for their rights with the help of the organizations working for human rights in their areas they added.

Mrs. Nagina Kaleem Din thanked the CWO staff, the all resource persons and ensured with these positives remarks that both organizations would defiantly work together for women’s empowerment in future.

Prepared by: Shaheen Yousaf