Silence and powerlessness go hand in hand – women’s voices must be heard (Rebecca Solnit) Women voices are not only deliberately suppressed but an effort is made to unhear them too. Khor Ghag is a humble endeavour of Pakhtun women to provide a platform to the voiceless Pashtun women. […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
Khor, women organization, believed that the government needs to unveil a reform agenda to mainstream the marginalized area by introducing political, judicial and administrative reforms. As a first step, the government passed a bill on the extension of higher judiciary to FATA to give its people an easy access to […]
KHOR’s Consultative Roundtable Conference on “FATA Political Reforms: Defining Tribal ...
KHOR organization arranged a consultation meeting with media to share Khor.org & its forums Qabailee Khor, Aqleyati Khor, Musafira Khor & magazine Khor Ghag Magazine work for women empowerment and discuss issues of women in KP/FATA and struggle together to solve them.
KHOR Consultative Meeting With Media
Khor arranged a press conference for Qabailee Khor regarding extension of higher courts to FATA. It welcomed the first step towards mainstreaming and integration of Fata, however it has expressed certain reservations. The members raised certain important questions such as what will be the jurisdiction of higher courts in Fata? […]
KHOR Arranged a Press Conference To Express Concerns Regarding Extension ...
KHOR participated in three-day Pakistan-Afghanistan Pukhtun Festival 2018, conceived by the renowned anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Samar Minallah Khan along with the three co-directors (Maria Usman, Lubna Farooq and Shandana Khan) at Islamabad. For peace building and highlighting the issues of women, the framers of the festival used culture as […]
KHOR in Pak-Afghan Pakhtun Festival 2018
1 Our founding member is a resident of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), presently serving as a faculty in the department of Political Science, University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As a student of peace studies, attended three weeks course/workshop “Sources of Conflict in South Asia”, arranged by Friedrich Naumann Foundation, at […]
Challenging Stereotypes- Connecting Cultures Building Peace
KHOR arranged a seminar for our Aqliyati Khor on International Women’s Day. KHOR understands that humanity is love, peace and tolerance. In conflict ridden North West, we united our sisters under the umbrella of KHOR, (sisters’ strength and enlightenment), hence formed certain networks like Qabailee Khor for women of FATA, […]
KHOR Promoting Interfaith Harmony and Celebrating Women’s Day with our ...
Dr. Noreen Naseer, founding member KHOR was one of the keynote speaker on the International Women’s Day, 8th March 2018 at Tehran Conference on “Women, Sustainable Peace and Security”. In her talk she discussed the UN efforts on women’s issues in the conflict ridden regions of the world. She mentioned […]
KHOR Representing Pakistan in International Conference on “Women, Sustainable Peace ...
Short Course for Tribal Women on “Social and Political Challenges in FATA and Women” KHOR believe that empowering women means confident, self-aware, and passionate individual, thus we train and educate tribal women to protect their social, political and economic rights while being their best selves and informed of changes happening […]
Short Course for Pakhtun Women on “Social and Political Challenges ...
KHOR participated in the protest for baby Zainab, who was raped and brutally killed in Kasur, we are striving for humane society that has transformed into a complicated mess. The abuse that our women and children face are manifolds, and our men are directly and indirectly involved in it. We […]