Tag: AGHS
AGHS holds capacity-building workshop on anti-rape laws for police officials
AGHS held a capacity-building workshop on anti-rape laws, which was attended by over 30 police officials, including GBV investigating officers. In over 15 training workshops, more than 300 officials including judges, prosecutors and police officers have been trained about anti-rape laws since January 2022.
AGHS Paralegal Programme: Facilitating access to justice
Parveen is the in-charge of a paralegal center that she runs out of her own home. For the past 3 decades, she has been educating women on their rights and facilitating access to justice with AGHS Legal Aid Cell.
Freed after 8 years: Woman finds justice through AGHS prison programme
After 8 years of languishing in jail under trumped up murder charges, Balqees Bibi – a beneficiary of AGHS’s jail visits programme – has finally attained freedom.
Gujranwala police fail to arrest man accused of poisoning his wife
Police in Gujranwala have failed to arrest an absconder whose wife accused him in a video of poisoning her. Kiran Shahzadi recorded the video from the hospital bed but died later.
Conviction rate in sexual crimes cases stands at 3.6% in 2022
According to data received by Voicepk, the conviction rate in cases of sexual abuse including rape remained at 3.6%. Out of 7988 cases, only 160 people were punished by the courts for committing sexual offences. The 65% of people who faced trial for sexual crimes got acquitted by the trial courts.
In a first, rapist gets imprisonment for remainder of life
An Additional District and Sessions court in Islamabad has convicted a rape accused sentencing him to imprisonment for the remainder period of his natural life. The convict raped a foreign national while working with her as a security guard.
AGHS organizes Anti-Rape Law training workshop at the KP Judicial Academy in Peshawar
AGHS Legal Aid Cell organized a training workshop on the new Anti-Rape laws at the KP Judicial Academy in #Peshawar.
The workshop was attended by more than 25 additional district and sessions judges from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Death-row murder convict acquitted after spending six years in jail
AGHS Legal Aid Cell has helped a destitute death-row convict get an acquittal in a murder case after spending six years in jail.
Asma Jahangir Conference 2022 – Crisis of Constitutionalism in South Asia
AGHS Legal Aid Cell, with the support of the Asma Jahangir Foundation, the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and the Pakistan Bar Council, is organizing its annual flagship Asma Jahangir Conference on the 22nd and 23rd of October 2022.
AGHS conducts GBV workshop for public prosecutors
More than 30 public prosecutors from different districts of Punjab attended AGHS Legal Aid Cell's training session on gender-based violence (#GBV) and gender sensitivity.
