Seminar on violence against women held
Lahore Police on Monday organised an awareness seminar on ‘harassment and violence against women’ at Alhamra Arts Council.
Punjab Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Raja Basharat was the chief guest on this occasion.
In his welcome address, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar expressed his deep concern over the increasing trend of gender-based violence in the society and declared sexual harassment and violence against women a devastating human rights violation of the present era, as it remained largely unreported in the past.
It was necessary for the victims to raise their voice against any harassment or violence and get police help to bring the perpetrators to justice, he urged.
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The CCPO pledged that Lahore police’s awareness campaign was aimed at preventing and eliminating all forms of gender-based violence against women, alarmingly intensified for the past few days and to sensitise people regarding sanctity and respect of women in society, expressing unity with them, assuring full police support against any sort of sexual harassment and violence.
Dogar highlighted the initiatives of Lahore Police to redress the grievances of victims of gender-based crimes.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 14th, 2021.