A seminar was organized on the Role of Youth in the diminution of gender based injustice at Sindh Scout Auditorium, Karachi. Speakers at seminar urged the government and society, at large, to effectively implement the laws made against gender discrimination and ensure that female members of society receive same prestige and treatment that was given to its male members.
“Today’s mindset is that women are like servants or even less, which is very unfortunate, “ said retired Justice Majida Rizvi, chairperson of Provincial Human Rights Commission while presiding over the seminar. She called upon the youth, who formed majority of the audience at seminar to change “male –dominant mindset” and don’t discriminate against their female siblings.
Retired Justice Zafar Sherwani said that there was not lack of laws against gender and social discrimination, yet it was continually on the rise for lack of implementation. Other civil society and government representative also spoke on the occasion.