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[email protected] 3 Contents Foreword About this report International Women’s Day Commemoration Discourses Launching of Research Reports Initiatives Visits of Foreign Delegates Commission’s Meetings Executive Committee’s Meetings Engagements of the Chair Media Coverage 4 5 Foreword Life is a blessing if it is afforded with equity and dignity. A life spent in anguish of inequity and indignity becomes a burden. Women continue to live a life full of strife, exploitation and inequity. This burden weighs over their aspirations. Women of Pakistan enjoy the equal status and a right to a life of dignity according to the Constitution and Islam. Contrarily, these two guarantee nothing much to the female citizens of Pakistan when it comes to equal rights. The majority of women still wait to be recognized as equal partners in life despite of all guarantees, and the responsibilities that they are entrusted with. Women suffer the vagaries of life more than men, and the society continues to treat them with indifference. National Commission on the Status of Women has an ambitious mandate to act as the conscience of the government by reviewing policies and laws and making recommendations thereof. Its most difficult task is to combat the indifference prevalent in the society at every level.