White Ribbon Campaign continues
Pakistan is ranked 55 out of 86 in a list of nations violating social norms and rights concerning women, says WRCP CEO
LAHORE:
Warid Telecom joined hands with White Ribbon Campaign (WRCP) to spreading the message to end violence against women and girls. The company sent an awareness SMS to its subscribers and spread the message on its social mediums and the company website.
WRCP CEO Omer Aftab said that Pakistan was ranked 55 out of 86 in a list of nations violating social norms and rights concerning women. The country was ranked 94 out of 102 in the Gender Inequality Index, 2009. However, he said this year its ranking had dropped at an alarming rate. Pakistan ranks lowest in the South Asian region in terms of GDP per capita for women, he added. The White Ribbon Day against gender inequalities is an international campaign initiated by White Ribbon Campaign in Pakistan. It starts from November 25- International Day against Violence against Women- and ends on December 10- International Human Rights Day- to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasise that biases of all sorts are a violation of human rights.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 4th, 2012.
Warid Telecom joined hands with White Ribbon Campaign (WRCP) to spreading the message to end violence against women and girls. The company sent an awareness SMS to its subscribers and spread the message on its social mediums and the company website.
WRCP CEO Omer Aftab said that Pakistan was ranked 55 out of 86 in a list of nations violating social norms and rights concerning women. The country was ranked 94 out of 102 in the Gender Inequality Index, 2009. However, he said this year its ranking had dropped at an alarming rate. Pakistan ranks lowest in the South Asian region in terms of GDP per capita for women, he added. The White Ribbon Day against gender inequalities is an international campaign initiated by White Ribbon Campaign in Pakistan. It starts from November 25- International Day against Violence against Women- and ends on December 10- International Human Rights Day- to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasise that biases of all sorts are a violation of human rights.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 4th, 2012.