Legal Literacy and Support of Victims
Posted by waqasabid at Oct
Waqas Abid, Pakistani JusticeMaker fellow 2010, has been hard at work organising advisement of rights campaigns throughout Kasur, a district in the Punjab province. His work, focusing on spreading knowledge of legal right amongst bonded labourers, has taken him to 18 villages where he hosted awareness seminars for 683 individuals. Pakistan’s domestic laws state that […]
Pakistani JusticeMaker Teams Up with Influential Government Department to Widen Impact of Project
Posted by waqasabid at Jan
On 1 December 2010 Pakistani JusticeMaker 2010, Waqas Abid, had a meeting with the Head of Kasur District’s Social Welfare and Women’s Development Department, Mr. Abad Ali Jatala. The Department is a combined subsection of Pakistan’s Ministry of Women Development and the Ministry of Social Welfare, and its aims include promoting gender equality, poverty alleviation […]