Like other parts of the country International Women Day was also celebrated by Shundor women Forum (SWF) in collaboration with Aga Khan Social Welfare Board (AKSWB) Chitral at Booni some 85 KM from here. The program was started with the recitation from the Holy Quran. Miss Farzad Bibi Education officer was chief guest on the occasion while Mrs. Mehrab presided over the ceremony besides them Mrs. Noshaba an Educationist was also setting on the daises.
Miss Fatma Taj performed as stage secretary. Maqsooda Bibi presented Hamd Sharif while Shamim Akhtar read Naath Sharif. Mrs. Noshaba Chair Person of SWF highlighted importance of this day. And stressed upon women folk especially on mothers to treat their daughters equally as comparative to their sons.
She also highlighted aim and objectives of their women forum which working for development of women of the area.
Miss Amreen Ghazala delivered speech on women role in development of the country and lamented mothers for discriminating their daughters for no interest in them at early childhood while they patronizing their sons. She said those children became robbers, addict who are ignoring by their mothers in childhood. Meher Amroz a lady health worker, Miss Farzana, Mrs. Yasmin Gul, Miss Nargus, , Miss Farzana SET, Mrs. Mehrin Nisa Principal Govt. Girls high school Warijun, Miss Rehana etc spoke on the occasion and highlighted women role in Islam. Beside male participants Saslamat Khan social welfare officer of AKSWB and Rahmat Nabi of Nani Early child development institution also participated the function.
Meanwhile an other function in memorandum of international women day was held at Drosh by Drosh women forum in collaboration with Legal Aid Forum for Human Rights financially supported by TROCAIRE. The women folk delivered speeches on women role in uplift of the area and building of society. They highly appreciated women role in development of the country and caring of their children. Besides other Niaz Ali Shah General Secretary LAFH also attended the ceremony.
G.H. Farooqi reports from Chitral
A “Working Women Assembly” was organized at Press Club Hyderabad on March 7, 2008. Among the participants were peasants, agriculture workers, kiln workers, stone crackers, domestic workers, factory workers, bangle workers, sex workers, health workers, councilors, academicians, advocates, nurses, doctors, journalists, social workers, police women, officials, parliamentarians, political leaders and those who earn for their families.
More than 250 women from different districts of Sindh participated in the Assembly. The program was like an assembly in true sense where every participants was regarded as a member of the assembly and her profession was assumed her constituency. A speaker panel (Mrs. Nazir Qureshi from Sindhiyani Tehreek acted as speaker, Parveen Soomro of GRDO acted as deputy speaker, Shabana Khan from PPP acted as leader of treasury benches and Nasreen Shakeel Pathan acted as leader of opposition) run the assembly and gave ruling at the end of the assembly. Dr. G. Hyder, Director of GRDO, described the aims and objective of the assembly. The ruling in the form of charter of demands will be handed over to parliamentarians for consideration in political parties and to be discussed at the floor of national and provincial assemblies for legislation.
During and after the Assembly Green Theatre Group performed theatres and tablos on bonded labor and on honor killing.
Resolutions:
â–º Participants of this assembly who belong to different caste, creed, class, religion, race and profession unanimously agree that they are part of the international Movement for women rights.
â–º Government must take strong initiatives to minimize the unemployment.
â–º Government should announce 8th March as “Women Holiday” as women may celebrate this freely to get their voice heard.
â–º Assembly understands the importance of recent elections as a success of people of Pakistan over non-democratic powers and aspires from the sacrifice of a women leader as beacon of democracy and demands impartial enquiry of her death and corporal punishment be given to assassinators and master minds behind the killing.
â–º We demand the restoration of judiciary and demands for the freedom of women and children of the judges under illegal confinement of law enforcing agencies.
â–º Equal employment opportunities and wages be given to women.
â–º Women and children are the most victimized of bonded labor so government must take serious actions to abolish bonded labor from Pakistan.
â–º We demand for recovery of the family members of Manu Bheel under illegal confinement of a landlord.
â–º We express our solidarity with all those whose dear ones were picked up by law enforcing agencies and are missing. We demand their earliest recovery and if they there are allegations on them then they must be produced before the court of law.
â–º This Assembly condemn the sexual, physical and mental torture women are victimized of and demand from the government to give punishment to the culprits.
â–º As International Women Day/week is being celebrated all over the world to honor women’s dignity and rights but the so-called champion of human rights and democracy (U.S.A government) is busy in making hell the lands of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other parts of the world. We demand from the U.S.A government to stop immediately its destructive activities and quit from the said areas of the world.
Bisharat Ali with GRDO reports from Hyderabad, Sindh
It is always easy to do self projection then to be correct.We cellebrate Valentines like no other day, then we cellebrate Halloweens ..what next Mardegra?
Womens day...Tell me what concrete steps have been taken in the last five years to promote women of Pakistan and what are the facts and the figures. We celebrete this day like any other by Mrs XYZ giving long long lectures. We dress up in a designer wear, wear dimonds and propose ideas, as for the results.....none. Figures are what i am actually interested in seeing. Today , an average Pakistani is devided to the ones who have and the "Have nots". As for those who have, are either ones to have a very thick skinned that the poverty and inflation is not affecting them , or just social climbers who will do anything to be in Page 3 of a news paper or have their photographs in magazines. Its time the citizins of this country move their butt and start working. That will be the only way we are going to progress.
SOURCE:www.thesouthasian.org
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