PESHAWAR: Child marriages that snatch innocence of millions of girls worldwide, is one of the biggest obstacles to development. There is increasing recognition that child marriage is a serious problem that violates human rights and hinders key development outcomes. The latest international estimates indicate that, worldwide, more than 60 million women aged 20-24 were married before they turned 18. Blue ...

PESHAWAR: Child Rights Movement (CRM) is a group of more than 200 like-minded civil society organizations, working in all four provinces, AJK, FATA and Gilgit Baltistan. The aim of CRM is to create an enabling environment for children through collective advocacy on child rights issues. Child Rights Activist from FATA and Coordinator Child Rights Movement, Zar Ali Khan Afridi said ...

PESHAWAR: Rwadari Tehreek held a meeting in Peshawar demanding the government to take action against all the banned outfits who are spreading hatred, extremism and are involved in Terrorism. Rwadari Tehreek is a social movement that is launched by the concerned citizens of Pakistan in order to promote a culture to respect all faiths in a society. The participants of the meeting ...

PESHAWAR: Blue Veins a Peshawar based organization has initiated a project “Strengthening District Bar Associations and setting up Facilitation Kiosks in District Court”, Peshawar in collaboration with District Bar Association under Gender Equity Program (GEP) of Aurat Foundation supported by USAID.  The project will help to sensitize the lawyers in gender legal practices and consolidate pro-women judicial precedents and regressive ...

PESHAWAR: Blue Veins with the support of Canada Fund for Local initiatives (CFLI) organized a Multi-stakeholder’s consultation in Peshawar to review the latest available provincial drafts of Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2016 and develop a consensus based best amended pro-girls and women marriage restraint act draft to be presented in the KP Assembly. The consultation aimed to reduce ideological conflict ...

ISLAMABAD: A lobbying session with Pakistan Pe0ples Party (PPP) was organized by Civil Society Network (PCSN), Tribal NGOs Consortium (TNC), AAs Foundation, Peace Justice and youth organizations, Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) and Blue Veins to discuss the content of Prevention of Electronic Crime Bill 2015 which has been approved by the Standing Committee on Information and Technology and is about ...

PESHAWAR: International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2015, observed throughout world, served to remind states about their commitments to protect and promote human rights in their respective countries. The Commission of Human Rights announced today in the ‘Federally Administered Tribal Area’ (FATA), an area generally regarded as being ‘human rights-free’, the formation of an independent Human Rights body (FCHR) which ...