British officials advocate enforcement of women rights
National
February 26, 2021
SUKKUR: Jessica Achilles, Second Secretary of the British Social Development Programme, along with Mona Shamusuddin, British Deputy Head of Mission, visited the office of the Nari Foundation, Sukkur.
Talking to newsmen, they said they had observed lack of enforcement of legislation related to women rights and called upon the NGOs to advocate the government to ensure enforcement.They visited several non formal schools in Khairpur run by Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), UKAID. Qalandar Bakhash, Head of Department of Education, HANDS, said that they were supporting 300 non-formal schools in Karachi, Shahdadkot and Khairpur districts with the help of FCDO. He said they were helping 7,000 out-of-school children to complete primary education free of charge. He pledged to enroll even larger number of children and help them accomplish education up to the tenth grade in the new academic