MoU signed to provide legal help to women belonging to tribal districts
A memorandum of understanding was signed between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace and Merged Districts Women Lawyers Forum (MDWLF) for provision of legal support to women of the newly merged districts in securing their rights to inheritance.
The MoU is also mean to increase access of women and girls to legal services in tribal districts.
Speaking on the occasion, Rukhshanda Naz, the ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace, said that the MoU was an important step towards empowerment of women in tribal districts through ensuring their rights to inheritance and increasing their access to legal services.
She said that efforts were also under way to link the women lawyers of merged districts with the mainstream legal fraternity. She added that their meetings with bar councils of other districts of the province would be arranged so that they could get maximum exposure.
MoU signed to provide legal help to women belonging to tribal districts
Ms. Naz said that a process of profiling of the tribal female lawyers was also started to remove the misconception that women in merged districts were not allowed to work or go out of their home districts.
She said that most of the tribal women were still ignorant about their rights, especially their right to inheritance. She added that young tribal lawyers were assigned the additional responsibility of creating awareness among the local womenfolk about their legal and constitutional rights.
Advocate Hamna Ikram, the president of Women Lawyers Forum of Newly Merged Districts, said that the forum would make all-out efforts to ensure rights to inheritance and increase access of women and girls of tribal districts to legal services.
She also stressed the need for establishing fully furnished barrooms for women lawyers in all the newly merged districts.
