Pakistan has signed/adopted a number of international commitments related to gender equality, women rights and empowerment such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Beijing Platform for Action, and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women and Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Gender equality and women empowerment is at the core of the SDGs 2030 agenda. In response, Pakistan has made policies/laws such as National Policy for Development and Empowerment of Women, Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, Criminal Procedure Code Amendments (in the name of honour and offences relating to Rape), National Plan of Action on Human Rights, and other Gender equality policy frameworks and women empowerment initiatives.
