Shirkat Gah- Women's Resource Centre
The group was set up as a pressure cum lobby and consciousness
raising group. It was later expanded to include women's development
concerns, networking, income generating projects and non-formal
education. Some of the issues it focuses on are violence against
women, work and women's health and environment. Its area of
operation is NWFP (Peshawar), Punjab (Faisalabad, Lahore), Sindh
(Hyderabad, Karachi). Major projects undertaken for women include
Women, Law and Status: Discriminatory Customary practices Against
Women (1993), Women and Sustainable Development: Intergenerational
Transfer of knowledge and reproductive health in rural and urban
areas (1992).
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