The mission of Aware Girls is to empower young women, advocate for equal rights of young women, and to strengthen their capacity enabling them to act as agents of women empowerment and social change. Aware Girls has participated in the global assemblies and is a co-founding member of the Asia Democracy Network. Aware Girls co-founder,…
Zafarullah Khan is a Pakistan based civic educator and was the executive director of the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services. Zafarullah Khan was the executive director of the Centre for Civic Education until 2016, an independent educational institution that works to cultivate civic culture. Khan has also worked with leading newspapers and occasionally contributes on…
Every year, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Film Festival screens in more than 20 cities and selects approximately 40 films featuring human rights activists’ stories. This year, “Black Code,” a documentary featuring the founder of Citizen Lab Ron Deibert and his colleagues has been chosen for screening. The Citizen Lab researchers use evidence-based research to…
The transgender community scored a historic victory last week when the Islamabad High Court granted their writ petition ruling that authorities must add a transgender category to the national census form. Since September 2016, the Trans Action Alliance Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Trans Action KP) has been pushing a writ petition calling for a more inclusive national…