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Organisations and Networks working on
Sexuality in South and Southeast Asia - Pakistan
Aahung, Karachi
Aahung is a non-profit sexual health resource center aiming to promote sexual health and rights in Pakistan. They work with the belief that all human beings have the right to sexual health and other rights enshrined by the United Nations and ratified by all of its member states. Currently, the Aahung team leads capacity building and awareness raising
activities, provides clinical services and conducts research and advocacy for better sexual health. The Sexuality Information Centre has materials targeting youth, health care providers, adults, parents and educators. Aahung also has publications on seminars, progress reports and research, and a community centre section, where you can read the message
board, subscribe to information services, and browse people's personal writings in "Our Voices".
Shirkat Gah – Women’s
Resource Centre
Shirkat Gah - Women’s Resource Centre, formed in 1975 is a Collective to
integrate consciousness raising with a development perspective, and to
initiate projects translating advocacy into action. Shirkat Gah meaning
‘place of participation’, has over the last 30 years empowered women by
increasing their access to information, resources, skills and decision
making. In this process Shirkat Gah has brought positive change to policies,
laws, and practices. Shirkat Gah has ECOSOC status at the United Nation.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Lahore
An international network that provides information, solidarity and support for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. The Network aims to increase the autonomy of women by supporting the local struggles of women from within Muslim countries and communities and linking them with feminist and
progressive groups at large; facilitating interaction, exchanges and contacts and providing information as well as a channel of communication.
World Population Foundation
World Population Foundation (WPF) aims to encourage sexual and reproductive
health and rights throughout the world. WPF supports projects by local
organisations in developing countries enabling individuals to make their own
decisions about their sexuality and the number of children they desire. It’s
mission is to work to improve the quality of life in developing countries by
promoting: sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); raising awareness
of the importance of SRHR for sustainable human development and understanding
the central role of reproductive health in population issue through awareness
creation, education, resource mobilisation, and the provision of information and
services, especially to women and young people.
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