KARACHI:Deputy Speaker Sindh Assembly and Chairperson Women Parliamentary Caucus in the provincial assembly Rehana Leghari, on Tuesday, assured her full support in drafting Sindh Women Protection Policy.
She expressed the views while presiding over a discussion of Sindh Women Parliamentarian Caucus on Sindh Women Protection Policy during Natural Calamities organised by Civil Society Support Program (CSSP) at Sindh Assembly Building.
The session was attended by members of different parliamentary parties including PPP MPA Shahina Sher Ali, Farhat Seemi Soomro, Sadia Jawaid, Ghazala Siyal, MQM’s Ra’ana Ansar, Shahana Ashraf, Rabia Khatoom and PTIs Adeeba Hassan.
The deputy speaker said that the entire nation has learned a lesson from the recent rains and floods in Pakistan and was ready to deal with such calamities in future.
She said that the government, philanthropists and welfare organisations actively participated in the relief activities, but rights, needs and feelings of women could not get due attention in relief activities.
Rehana Laghari observed that women particularly pregnant women were the most affected by the natural calamity and such women needed special care in their normal life while during natural calamity priority should be attached to their rescue and provision of relief.
She opined that ration bags, tents, cash, cooked-food etc had been provided to the flood and rain effected people in large quantity but not personal hygiene kits for women was included in the whole pack of relief good that indicate negligence towards specific issues of women.
The deputy speaker and other members of Sindh Women Parliamentary Caucus appealed to the NDMA, PDMA, INGOs, NGOs, and philanthropists to include and provide all necessary items including the hygiene kit for women in relief goods.
CSSP representative Kashif Bajeer and Noor Bajeer briefed the participants on the Sindh Women Protection Policy and stressed the need of providing necessities of women during natural disaster.
They informed that the recent rains and floods have created huge problems for women apart from displacement, which are extremely important to address. This policy will protect the rights, needs and feelings of women in natural calamities they added.