Report International women Day

Activity Report
International Women Day

On the 18th of March 2010, DASE Development Organization conducted a forum on women rights under Nikah Nama and also facilitate to 100 women for obtaining ID Cards.
Aim
The aim of the 8th March Forum was to inform the public about the initiative and to facilitate the exchange of ideas with members of the community on the women rights issue under Nikah Nama and facilitate 100 women to obtaining ID Cards on this day.

Outcomes
It was intended that the Forum enable participants to have:
An understanding of the general issues surrounding women rights
An opportunity to contribute to discussions about women right under Nikah Nama
100 women will obtain ID card

Objectives:
Creating Awareness about MDGs
Gender sensitization
Raising awareness about women rights under Nikah Nama
Opportunity for obtaining ID Card

International Women’s Day, 8th March, is a global day of celebration where women from all countries and of different political, economic, social, linguistic and ethnic backgrounds can join together to reflect on the struggle for equality over the past century,
Celebrate the achievements to date and identify the challenges for the future. DASE always take on proper strategy for such type of awareness base activities for the raising proper and right base approach. On this previous Women Day DASE accomplished fruitful activity for rural women which have no any other facility.
International Women’s Day, held annually on 8 March, is a global day of celebration of Women and their achievements in the present and in history. The day also provides an
opportunity to highlight some of the remaining inequalities between women and men in many spheres of public and private life.
The activity was opened by Mr. Rana Shabir who began by talking about the importance of women rights under the Nikah Nama he said that, of the wide ranged social causes of violence against women, Nikah Naama becomes a major cause, which is the formal written marriage contract between a man and a woman. Marriage contract and its standard clauses are prepared in light of Muslim laws, providing various social securities to a woman. A woman’s social security in the marriage contract is represented by Clauses 18, 19, 20, 21 addressing right to divorce, explanation on Husband’s right to divorce, instructions on dower and woman’s lifestyle maintenance, and about the right of a woman to allow or disallow second marriage.

To secure the women and address all kinds of atrocious treatments e.g. violence, social injustice, gender injustice etc, the marriage contract includes Clause 17 instructing on special arrangements and agreements for securing a women’s marital life. After this Miss. Shazia raise light on the issue of stakeholder awareness regarding Nikah Nama. She In general major stakeholders are either less aware or insensitive to importance of the marriage contract and its role in eradicating social injustice and gender inequality. The state entrusts the responsibility of marriage contract registration with Union Council Administration, the union administrators are themselves insensitive to marriage contracts importance and its social effectiveness. Another major stakeholder, the marriage contract convenor (Nikkah Khawan) who is responsible for family law enforcement at the contract time, treats the contract document merely as an ordinary paper and plays a major role in uselessness of the marriage contract by deleting (cutting) Clauses 16 to 22 without informing the two contracting parties. The contracting parties (marrying men and woman and their families) are themselves not informed of the importance of the marriage contract. Musalihat-e-Anjumans, another major stakeholder responsible to arbitrate marital disputes and act as a mutual decision making body, generally make decisions based on members sole understandings and judgments irrespective of the marriage contract.
Mr Munir Sherazi was stage secretary of the forum and facilitate to all program. Mr. Ghulam Gillani managed the entire program. Many women of the community are present at the forum. After the forum DASE facilitate to 100 women for get ready and obtain the ID cards with the coordination of NADRA. Team come at union council and facilitate to rural women on door step.
Conclusion:
Examining an issue such as gender equality in an organisation or in the wider society is
not about apportioning blame to individuals or groups of individuals. Inequalities arise in
the global and local historical, political and social context. For an organisation such as DASE, which has adopted and implemented progressive service delivery and employment practices, there is tremendous opportunity to play a lead role in continually adapting and developing those policies to serve and to represent an equal and just society.