Trends in reported cases of CSA (Sahil)

Sexual abuse has for long been neglected by various segments of our society where social norms and cultural anecdotes have played an active role in suppressing these issues. These practices have affected the response of law enforcing agencies towards these issues of violence. There are many victimized segments in the society. However one segment...

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SPARC Gets New Executive Director

Ms. Sadia Hussain joined SPARC as Executive Director in November 2015. She has been working in Pakistan on diverse areas of education, monitoring and research for the past fifteen years. She has worked on several DFID and ADB funded projects as a self employed educational research consultant, running her own company successfully for more...

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Solar kids treatment successful

The two children who live in a suburb at Quetta city suffer from a rare disease. When the sun rises they are bright and chirpy, when it sets they become lifeless. “I have five children. But only these two suffer from this disease,” said Hashim, their father. Doctors at Islamabad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), where the children...

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