Dastak carried out a series of activities as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence Campaign 2022. It carried out art workshops for women from Dastak shelter, Lahore Darul Aman and Darul-Falah as well organised a meetup with government representatives from the Punjab Assembly and Chief Ministers Office to give an opportunity to […]
Qila Gujjar Sindh police Station, Lahore: Dastak Charitable Trust entered into an MOU with the Anti-Harassment Gender Crime Cell and Victims Support Centre, Punjab Police created under the Capital City Police, Investigation Wing to strengthen the rule of law and legal protection in sexual, domestic and GBV cases. The objective of the collaboration was to mutually assist each […]
Monitoring and Protecting the Legal Rights of Women and Girls and Improving their Access to Justice. PREFACE Paralegals have proved to be a valuable support for women’s access to justice and provide not only an important source of information and awareness on processes for relief, but also empower communities and enhance their self-sufficiency. In its […]
10 June 2022 – CIPP Report is a statistical and observational analysis of the child population that enters the prison system every year in the Punjab. The purpose of this report is to present a comprehensive picture of the condition of children in prison. The statistics on which this report is based are received from the Home […]
A poster designed as part of Dastak’s 2022 campaign with beauticians in Lahore.
In 2022, Dastak launched a campaign among beauticians and small beauty parlor workers in Lahore to raise awareness about the women’s rights related to marriage as well as existing Prevention, Protection, Response (PPR) services in Punjab. During an introductory meeting on 4th January 2022, various materials, including posters and pamphlets were shared with participants to be […]
Dastak designed a module on Muslim family laws related to divorce, maintenance of wife and children, khula and divorce, custody of children etc. Using community contacts, social activists were selected from Lahore and Multan to undergo a rigorous three day training on the module. The training equipped them with relevant knowledge related to local laws […]
A pamphlet on basic legal awareness, designed as part of Dastak’s campaign ‘Tashadad se Tahafaz Tak’. It provides a step-by step guide to seeking legal assistance in case of gender-based violence. [pdf-embedder url=”https://dastak.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bunyadi-Qanooni-Rehnumai.pdf”]
Dastak organised a workshop in Lahore for prosecutors, lawyers and police officers from Lahore and Multan on methods to guarantee dispensation of justice for survivors of gender based violence. The workshop, led by Human Rights Watch Country Representative Saroop Ijaz, outlined the lacunae in laws related to GBV as well as institutional weaknesses and societal […]
The Child Rights Unit at Dastak conducted refresher training workshops for Punjab Prisons psychologists under its initiative, ‘Education for Children in Prisons (Punjab)’ for the Juvenile Justice program, running since 2019. 10 psychologists from Central and District Jails in Lahore, Sheikhupura, Kasur, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Bhakkar, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan were engaged as the […]