Law Minister Wasi Zafar has said that women are facing poverty, exploitation, backwardness and deprivation, proper legislation is needed to overcome these social evils. He was addressing a seminar on 'Women and Children's Rights' organised by an NGO Islamic Relief.
The seminar was also attended by Dr Arifa Syeda Zohra, Chairperson, National Commission on Status of Women (NCSW), Dr Sohaila Ministry of Women Development, Nahida Mehboob Elahi, Secretary General Human Rights Society of Pakistan, besides others. Wasi Zafar said that efforts are being made by the government for the provision of free education to children to increase literacy rate in the country.
He said that women have no awareness of their rights and it is need of the hour to start law reforms for the betterment of women lot so that they may be released from the clutches of exploitation.
He said that women prisoners are given relaxation in imprisonment except involved in terrorism and narcotics cases. Women and children from poverty-stricken sections of the society are constrained to work hard in this worst inflationary era as there are no support systems for their welfare, he added.
Dr Arifa Syeda, chairperson NCSW, said that discriminatory laws are being used to violate women rights. Though laws exist women are compelled to follow so-called values and traditions, she observed.
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