Nobel Laureate Karman addresses video link conferencing at TU

  • December 5, 2015, 8:27 pm
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Nobel Peace Prize winner calls on women to raise
their voice against corruption, cruelty, injustice,
ignorance and poverty playing wholehearted
role for promotion of peace, rule of law,
democracy and freedom of expression

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QUETTA: The world fame Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman has called on the women to play their wholehearted role for promotion of peace, rule of law and justice, democracy, equality and freedom of expression besides raising voice against corruption, cruelty, injustice, ignorance and poverty.
She was addressing the conference through video link at the Turbat University the other day. The video conferencing was jointly arranged by the COMSAT Institute of Technology, Islamabad and Inter-University Consortium for Promotion of Social Sciences Pakistan.
It was the third video link conferencing session organized after inauguration of the video conferencing hall by the Chief Minister, Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch.
Tawakkol Karman was the first Arab woman, the youngest person at that time to have become a Nobel Peace Laureate and the category's second Muslim woman. At 32, Karman was then the youngest winner of a Nobel Peace Prize (2011).
Addressing the video conferencing session, she stressed that the government, institutions and the political parties need to ensure active participation of the women in every field of life.
Needless to mention here is that Tawakkol Karman had co-founded the human rights group Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) with seven other female journalists in 2005 in order to promote human rights, "particularly freedom of opinion and expression, and democratic rights.”
She believed that women should stop being or feeling that they are part of the problem and become part of the solution.
“We have been marginalized for a long time, and now is the time for women to stand up and become active without needing to ask for permission or acceptance.”
It was a rare opportunity for the faculty and teachers of the University to listen to Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman.
The Pro-Vice Chancellor of Turbat University, Professor Dr. Abdul Saboor Baloch applauded the efforts of the Incharge of IT Section on conducting successfully the video link conferencing in the University.
He also praised spirit of the faculty members and teachers in this regard, who demonstrated great interest in the lecture.
It may be mentioned here that the Turbat University had also played host to the Inter-University Consortium for Promotion of Social Sciences with financial assistance of the provincial government in Gwadar.
As many as 26 vice chancellors of various universities, experts, intellectuals and representatives of the international organizations had also participated in the consortium.

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