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PESHAWAR, Nov 25: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Social Welfare, Special Education and Women Development Sitara Ayaz has said a bill seeking punishment to those committing violence against women will be presented in the assembly soon.
The minister expressed these views while speaking at a function in connection with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women at Peshawar Press Club on Friday.
Social welfare department`s additional secretary Mutasim Billah and area study centre, Peshawar University Director Prof Dr Sarfaraz Khan also spoke on the occasion.
Ms Ayaz said preparations had also been started for legislation to provide protection to the workers and women working in different houses. With the implementation of these laws, she assured the people would feel improvement in the working conditions for the women.
Ms Ayaz said the era of silence against violence on women had come to an end, adding three helpline centres in the province had been established at Swabi, Mardan and Peshawar where women could easily approach to get counseling and lodge complaints.
Child protection centres, she said had already been established in Peshawar and the same facilities would be provided in other districts as well so that the people could get the help at their doorsteps. Similarly, she said gender cell had also started functioning at the social welfare department.
The minister said a campaign against the violence on women had already been launched, which will continue till Dec 10 in different districts.
She said a national seminar would be organised at Peshawar on the occasion of International Women Day.
Other speakers also highlighted the issues pertaining to violence on the women and stressed the need for increasing the literacy rate, awareness and legislation.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/26/women...-minister.html
The minister expressed these views while speaking at a function in connection with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women at Peshawar Press Club on Friday.
Social welfare department`s additional secretary Mutasim Billah and area study centre, Peshawar University Director Prof Dr Sarfaraz Khan also spoke on the occasion.
Ms Ayaz said preparations had also been started for legislation to provide protection to the workers and women working in different houses. With the implementation of these laws, she assured the people would feel improvement in the working conditions for the women.
Ms Ayaz said the era of silence against violence on women had come to an end, adding three helpline centres in the province had been established at Swabi, Mardan and Peshawar where women could easily approach to get counseling and lodge complaints.
Child protection centres, she said had already been established in Peshawar and the same facilities would be provided in other districts as well so that the people could get the help at their doorsteps. Similarly, she said gender cell had also started functioning at the social welfare department.
The minister said a campaign against the violence on women had already been launched, which will continue till Dec 10 in different districts.
She said a national seminar would be organised at Peshawar on the occasion of International Women Day.
Other speakers also highlighted the issues pertaining to violence on the women and stressed the need for increasing the literacy rate, awareness and legislation.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/26/women...-minister.html
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