This consultation was convened under the project Exploring Legal and Social Strategies to Combat Trafficking of Women and Girls, supported by the Resilience Fund. The project seeks to identify and address the structural and operational challenges in the prevention and prosecution of human trafficking, particularly in cases involving women and girls.
Dastak in collaboration with Punjab Women Protecting Authority and with the technical support of UNFPA organized a series of two-day workshops for DWPOs in Punjab on 22-23 May, 21-22 July 2025 and and 28-29 July 2025. The initiative comprised three sets of workshops. In the first workshop, 18 DWPOs were trained as trainers, who then facilitated the subsequent workshops held in Lahore and Multan, reaching the remaining DWPOs across Punjab.
Sixteen days every year, beginning from 25 November to 10 December, are globally recognized and dedicated to raising awareness on Gender Based Violence. While Dastak works all year with the vision and mandate to respond to GBV, its team undertakes a few programs to join the annual campaign.
Dastak organized a series of activities to celebrate International Women’s Day in 2024. Each year Dastak marks this day with thoughtfully designed and planned events that are collaborative and in line with the theme and spirit of IWD.
Dastak featured in the 2024 winter edition of Legal Women UK magazine. Legal Women is a UK publication for all women working in law or planning to do so. It addresses equality, diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and practical initiatives for change. In the article, our Executive Director talks about the impact of Dastak’s work and its future plans.
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Dastak in Collaboration with Punjab Women Protection Authority, Social Welfare Department and Lahore University of Management Sciences organised a two-day legal experts consultation on the implementation of the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act 2016 on 5-6 June 2023. The consultation took place at LUMS and was attended by nearly 30 legal experts from Punjab and Sindh.
January 23-25, Lahore: In a second round of collaboration with JICA, Dastak conducted a training workshop for staff of Darul Amans in Punjab, Human Rights Centres and Violence against Women Centre. The participants included the Superintendents, Wardens, Law Officers and Psychologists from these institutions.
The workshop consisted of 11 technical sessions spread over three days including group exercises, role plays, Q&A sessions and discussions. The workshop was structured around the following thematic areas:
This training was a part of JICA’s initiative for promoting Survivor Centered Approach for protection, rehabilitation and economic empowerment of survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Dastak’s overall objective to create a cadre of well trained human resource in the field of women protection and GBV response.
In September 2022, Dastak was engaged by JICA to carry out training workshops for staff of Darul Amans across Punjab. The workshops focused on gender sensitization, GBV Legislation and case management in Lahore, Vehari and Faisalabad. Each workshop was spread over three days and was attended by participants from different districts of Punjab. In total, 62 participants from 19 districts of Punjab received training under this initiative.
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 women survivors to discuss their concerns directly with policy makers.