Punjab government has initiated the Gender Reforms Action Plan (GRAP) project at the provincial level to achieve the goal of promoting gender equality. Provincial Secretary Planning and Development Ubaid Rabbani Qureshi disclosed it, while addressing a one-day seminar on "Gender Protection and Working Women" jointly organised by Gender Mainstreaming Units (GMUs) of Planning & Development, Law and Home Departments of Punjab government.
He said Pakistan is a signatory of many international commitments on "Gender & Development" like Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Secretary P&D said that there is a dire need to increase the motivational skills among students, especially, females to come forward to the job sector, because a large number of females quit job after acquiring higher education.
P&D Gender Specialist, GMU, Sobia Nasir highlighted the objectives of the seminar titled, "Gender Protection and Working Women." She underlined the importance and need of Gender Protection and Working Women in the social, legal, economic, departmental and health sectors, and also highlighted the risks relevant to the life of working women, and also identified the effective remedial measures in this regard.
Addressing the participants, the guest speakers Daud Saqlain, Program Manager Action Aid, Habib-Ur-Rahman Gilani General Manager Punjab Board of Investment & Trade (PBIT), Nabila Malik Director Advocacy FPAP, Shamaila Imran Psychologist, National College of Arts (NCA), Bushra Khaliq General Secretary Worker Women Helpline, Mubbashir Rahman Advocate Lahore High Court (LHC), and Uzma Zarrin Gender and Equity co-ordinator, SOHIP also highlighted the importance and need of gender protection for working women. They further explained the vulnerabilities relevant to the life of working women in detail.
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