PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ombudsperson Office and the newly formed Female Lawyers Network has singed MOU for providing legal aid to women in merged district.
Ombudsperson KP for Protection against Harassment, Rakhshanda Naz was present at the signing ceremony and appreciated resolve of young lawyers for protecting rights of women in merged districts.
She said that Women lawyers network will provide legal aid with regard to Women’s Inheritance and Harassment in collaboration with the Ombudsperson in merged districts.
The Female Lawyers Network was formed by young lawyers having representation
from from Khyber, Bajaur, Kurram and North and South Waziristan districts to help protect legal and constitutional rights for tribal women and spread awareness about their basic rights given in the constitution.
The basic objective of female lawyers network was to collectively resolve issues being faced by the women of merged districts who were not aware about their legal and constitutional rights and have no approach to the local courts in the male dominated society.
