• News Pakistan

    Women, transgender and PWDs, remain under-represented in the political process

    KARACHI: “Depite contributing around 49% of Pakistan’s population, women remain politically under-represented, specially at key decision making posts at national as well provincial level. They are barred from casting their votes in some areas, due to the absence CNICs. “Similarly, in the political leadership, either they are not given party tickets to contest election and if some political party gives them the ticket then it is not on winning posts, instead it in the constituency where even the male contestants cannot win election.

  • Business Recorder

    Sindh government to introduce smart card for special persons

    Special Assistant to CM Sindh on Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar has said that his department is going to introduce a smart card for special persons, having features of issuance coverage and other benefits. This smart card will be launched in collaboration with NADRA. He said this while talking to a delegation of FAFEN here in his office on Monday.

  • ARY News

    Sindh govt to introduce smart card for special persons: Naveed Qamar

    KARACHI: Special Assistant to Sindh Chief Minister on Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar on Monday said that the provincial government would soon introduce smart card for special persons, having features of insurance coverage and other benefits. Talking to a delegation of Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), who called on him at his office in Karachi, Qamar said that the smart card will be launched in collaboration with National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).

  • Eye News Network Service

    Qasim vows to introduce smart card for special persons

    KARACHI (ENN) Special Assistant to CM Sindh on Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar has said that his Department is going to introduce a smart card for special persons, having features of issuance coverage and other benefits۔ This smart card will be launched in collaboration with NADRA. This he said while talking to a delegation of FAFEN here in his office on Monday. Representatives of FAFEN Nosheen Khurrum, other NGOs Sahiba Shah, Jawaid Rais, Bindiya Rana and Deputy Secretary of DEPD Shahzaib Shaikh were also present.

  • Urdu Point

    Smart Cards To Be Introduced For Special Persons: Qasim Naveed

    KARACHI, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Jul, 2019 ) :Special Assistant to Sindh Chief Minister on Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD) Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar on Monday said that his department was going to introduce a smart card for special persons, having features of insurance coverage and other benefits. Talking to a delegation of Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), at his office, Qasim Naveed said that the smart card would be launched in collaboration with NADRA, according to a statement.

  • Roznama Nawai Waqat

    معذور ووٹروں اور انتخابی مشاہدہ کاروں کیلئے پولنگ سٹیشنزعموماً ناقابل رسائی تھے

    اسلام آباد(خصوصی نمائندہ)خواجہ سراؤں، خواتین اور معذور افراد کی انتخابی عمل میں سہولت کیساتھ شرکت کیلئے ترقی پسندانہ قانون سازی اور پالیسی اقدامات اٹھانے کے باوجود معاشرے کے ان طبقات کو عام انتخابات 2018 کے دوران اپنے ووٹ اور مشاہدہ کاری کے عمل میں حصہ لینے کے حق کو دیگر طبقات کیساتھ برابری کی بنیاد پر استعمال کرنے کے حوالے سے نامناسب رویوں اور رکاوٹوں کا سامنا رہا۔ کولیشن فار انکلیوسو پاکستان (سی آئی پی) کی طرف سے عام انتخابات 2018 کے مشاہداتی جائزے کے ابتدائی نتائج میں بتایا گیا ہے کہ معذور ووٹروں اور معذور انتخابی مشاہدہ کاروں کیلئے پولنگ سٹیشنز عموماً ناقابل رسائی تھے تاہم پولیس و سیکیورٹی اداروں کے اہلکاروں اور الیکشن کمیشن کے عملے کامعذور افراد کے ساتھ رویہ خاصا مددگار رہا جس کی وجہ سے معذور افراد کو الیکشنز ایکٹ 2017 کے تقاضوں کے مطابق ووٹ کاسٹ کرنے میں سہولت ملی۔

  • The News

    With their members on ground, transgender community looks forward to inclusive elections

    Nisha, a representative of the Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA), a transgender rights organisation, is excited to be playing an active role in Wednesday’s general elections. She is among the 375 people from across the country who have received training from the Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA), under the banner of Coalition for Inclusive Pakistan which has 15 civil society organisation, to be election observers, keeping track of issues women, disabled or transgender voters might face during the polling process and assisting them.

  • The News

    Gaslighting the disabled

    The phenomenon of gaslighting the disabled can be defined as the witting or unwitting, but unrelenting, onslaught directed at the disabled. They are targeted through jokes, through their depiction in movies and media and inaccessibly built environments which mess up the minds of the disabled on a daily basis. The term ‘gaslighting’ is used to depict behavioural patterns which are inherently manipulative.

  • The News

    Abandoned and isolated

    It was Leo Tolstoy who said that "all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". Same can be said about vulnerable groups. Take the example of people with disabilities and transgender people. They are unhappy in their own ways but their unhappiness is not rooted in who and what they are but in what society perceives them to be. Societal perceptions about the members of these groups translate into attitudinal and physical barriers causing suffering and misery for them on daily basis. These societal perceptions may vary: the disabled are pitied upon and condemned to live in isolation in the absence of accessible built environment and transgender people are ridiculed, thrown out of their homes, face physical violence and end up either sex workers or beggars.

  • Roznama Nawai Waqat

    خواجہ سرائوں‘ معذوروں‘ خواتین کا اتحاد قائم انتخابات میں ووٹ کا حق استعمال کرنیکا عزم

    اسلام آباد (خصوصی نمائندہ) آئندہ عام انتخابات میں مکمل وقار اور راز داری کیساتھ ووٹ کا حق استعمال کرنے کے عزم کے ساتھ پاکستان میں خواجہ سرائوں، معذوروں اور خواتین نے ایک اتحاد قائم کر لیا ہے۔ اتحاد میں تینوں طبقات کے دس دس نمائندے شامل ہیں اس اتحاد کا نام کولیشن فار انکلیوسو پاکستان (سی آئی پی) رکھا ہے۔ اتحاد کے قیام کا مقصد ان طبقات کا خود کو الیکشن ایکٹ 2017 کیساتھ ہم آہنگ کرنا ہے جس میں ان طبقات کی انتخابی عمل میں با سہولت شرکت کیلئے کچھ سازگار دفعات شامل کی گئی ہیں۔ اتحاد کی افتتاحی تقریب میں شریک ان طبقات کے نمائندوں نے الیکشن کمیشن پر زور دیا ہے آئندہ انتخابات میں الیکشن ایکٹ کی ان سے متعلقہ دفعات پر انکی حقیقی روح کے مطابق عمل در آمد یقینی بنایا جائے۔

  • Roznama Nawai Waqat

    خواجہ سراﺅں‘ معذوروں‘ خواتین کا اتحاد قائم انتخابات میں ووٹ کا حق استعمال کرنے کا عزم

    اسلام آباد (خصوصی نمائندہ) آئندہ عام انتخابات میں مکمل وقار اور راز داری کیساتھ ووٹ کا حق استعمال کرنے کے عزم کے ساتھ پاکستان میں خواجہ سراﺅں، معذوروں اور خواتین نے ایک اتحاد قائم کر لیا ہے۔ اتحاد میں تینوں طبقات کے دس دس نمائندے شامل ہیں اس اتحاد کا نام کولیشن فار انکلیوسو پاکستان (سی آئی پی) رکھا ہے۔ اتحاد کے قیام کا مقصد ان طبقات کا خود کو الیکشن ایکٹ 2017 کیساتھ ہم آہنگ کرنا ہے جس میں ان طبقات کی انتخابی عمل میں با سہولت شرکت کیلئے کچھ سازگار دفعات شامل کی گئی ہیں۔

  • The Nation

    Coalition of transgender, disabled, and women rights activists launched

    Islamabad-A coalition of transgenders, disabled and women rights’ activists was launched on Sunday to take part in electoral process in the upcoming general election. The coalition of thirty transgender, disabled and women rights’ activists titled Coalition for Inclusive Pakistan (CIP) was launched in Islamabad with the support of Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA), and has representation of the marginalised persons from all over the country. The purpose of forming the alliance is in line with provisions of the Elections Act 2017 that contain certain positive aspects to facilitate participation of transgender, disabled and women in electoral process.

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