Ministry to launch campaign to prevent violence against women
By Bushra Rafique

ISLAMABAD—Ministry of Women Development would soon start the next phase of its community campaign to prevent violence against women, an official source told APP Thursday.
She said elaborate preparations were in final stages to make the next phase of community campaign more effective by including media to prevent violence against women and to promote their rights.
She said the first phase of the project involving a total expenditure of Rs. 38 million, had been successfully completed, adding hopes were high to achieve the same concrete result from the next one as well.
She said besides other objectives, the campaign aimed at promoting women rights and creating awareness through print and electronic media. She said the first phase of the project included communities’ mobilization in collaboration with non-governmental organizations, with a special focus on rural women in the selected five districts where the ministry was operating crisis centers for victims of violence against women. Elaborating activities during the first phase, she said 7 workshops were conducted for police officers in major cities of the country to sensitize them on issues pertaining to violence against women.
She said a media campaign was launched and 40,000 posters inscribed with effective slogans on violence against women were designed, printed and distributed.