[Pak-Media] Women legislators assert lawmaking, oversight roles

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[Pak-Media] RIUJ and PFUJ unnecessarily interfering in affairs of APP

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Positive role of journalist bodies for welfare of media community is known to everyone, but now a days, a different trend is being witnessed when some members of esteemed journalist bodies like Rawalpindi and Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) and Pakistan Federation of Union of
journalists (PFUJ) are unnecessarily interfering in affairs of APP, probably to achieve some personal goals.

The employees of APP have always accorded due respect to the office bearers of above mentioned bodies whosoever, who, no doubt have always raised voice for rights of community. But these days, APP Employees have found unnecessary involvement of some members of both the bodies into affairs of APP whichis not fair and right.

APP is a premier news agency and its new management with the support of APP employees is
endeavoring to address all issues on priority. Now doubt, APP is facing some financial problems, but employees have full confidence on new management, headed by Managing Director, Rao Tahseen Iqbal, to arrange funding for the organization. Employees are receiving salary in time and even the management has also started paying pending bills of employees whenever it gets financial
space.

MD and its team are running from pillar to post to get the financial issues resolved at the earliest. These days, the RIUJ and PFUJ seem to have no business, except to discuss APP in their meetings. There are some other organizations where our journalists brothers and sisters are facing lay offs and even in some cases they are not being paid salaries for months.

Pls discuss their matters and try to get them addressed. They really need your help and you
people, being office bearers, must ensure provision of their rights.

If RIUJ and PFUJ really want to help APP, they should influence Ministry of Finance for
early release of funds. This would be real help to APP employees rather inviting annoyance through interference.

Pls stop interfering into affairs of APP.

From Employees of APP

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[Pak-Media] International Women's Day 2012: "Empower Rural Women — End Hunger and Poverty"

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International Women's Day


"Invest in rural women. Eliminate discrimination against them in law and in practice. Ensure that policies respond to their needs. Give them equal access to resources. Provide rural women with a role in decision-making."

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

"Unleashing the potential of rural women will make a major contribution to ending poverty and hunger."

Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women

Please find attached and below a Press Release from the UNWomen, Pakistan and messages from the United Nations Secretary-General, Executive Director, UNWomen and the Director-General of the ILO for your kind placement.

For more information about the Day,feature resources and background information please visit : http://www.un.org/en/events/womensday/

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PRESS RELEASE

 

Islamabad, 7 March, 2012

 

 

"Unleashing the potential of rural women will make a major contribution to ending poverty and hunger." Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women

 

This year, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), along with the entire UN System, will be commemorating International Women's Day on March 8  around the theme 'Empower Rural Women- End Hunger and Poverty'.  

 

A sustainable future can only be reached by women, men and young people enjoying equality together. While women have taken many positive steps forward in legal rights, educational achievements, participation in public life, and more women are surviving childbirth and can plan for their families, inequality still persists. Nowhere are disparities and barriers greater than in rural areas for women and girls where they work long hours with little or no pay and produce a large proportion of the food grown, especially in subsistence agriculture. The inequalities worsen in access to social services, land and other productive assets.

 

Women are central to the development of rural areas: it is critical that their contributions be recognized and that their voices be heard in decision-making processes at all levels. Effective strategic, policy and programmatic responses are called for to improve women's access to financial and productive resources and services, expand their opportunities to diversify their production, increase their productivity through labour-saving technologies, and facilitate their access to high-value productive markets. There is a need to prioritize infrastructure projects, such as roads and transportation to local markets, community-based water schemes, and renewable energy sources, and invest in rural women's initiatives that promote sustainable agriculture and biodiversity. Opening up economic opportunities for women, particularly rural women, would significantly raise economic growth and reduce poverty.

 

Today on International Women's Day, let us reaffirm our commitment to take comprehensive action on the ground to ensure that policy-makers adopt a systematic approach for the empowerment of rural women. Rural women and girls cannot wait and governments cannot afford to fail them.

 

 

 

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