Street theatre to promote women’s inheritance rights

Lahore : The European Union Punjab Access to Justice Project (EU-PA2J) has initiated a series of live street theatre performances in three districts of Punjab, Multan, Muzaffargarh and Bahawalpur, from December 9 till Dec 30, in an effort to promote greater understanding on women inheritance rights.

The concluding live act will be performed at Liberty Chowk, Lahore, on Dec 30. It is widely observed that women are denied their inheritance rights or they willingly relinquish it. The play ‘Daffa 498-A’ or ‘Article 498-A’, directly addresses a specific topic in the Pakistani Penal Code (PPC) which deals with women's inheritance rights.

In addition to creating awareness about legal rights, the play also provides information about the district legal empowerment committees which provide free legal assistance to needy and vulnerable people.

Through this classic theatre format, EU-PA2J is engaging with the affectees to create awareness while providing information to them about redress of their grievances.

The EU-PA2J has a mandate to increase access to justice for the poor and vulnerable in Punjab. Furthermore, the project has been instrumental in developing messages to increase public knowledge about their legal rights and the availability of legal and judicial services.

The team leader of the project, John Lipton, expressed the view that the target of empowering the needy and vulnerable people of Punjab might not be achieved unless people were educated about claiming their fundamental rights.

renal transplant: A patient namely Waheed Ahmed who got his kidney transplant 15 years back visited Lahore General Hospital and expressed his complete satisfaction and said he not was only living normal life but married and got a beautiful daughter by the grace of Allah Almighty. He visited Urology Department of LGH and met doctors and staff there.

According to a press release issued Wednesday, Waheed Ahmed told that Afzal who donated him kidney is also in good health and satisfied.

He expressed special thanks to Lahore General Hospital where he was provided best medical facilities for his kidney transplant when he was only 20-year old. He narrated that during these 15 years he remained healthy and now married too having a normal family as well.

Professor of Urology Dr Muhammad Nazir appreciated the sentiments of Waheed Ahmed and expressed determination that he and his team would continue to perform their professional duties in future with same zeal.

Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute Prof Ghias-un-Nabi Tayyab said that we should create awareness among masses to donate human organs.

He said that apart from kidneys other organs are also being transplanted and our neighbour country is far ahead in this field. Principal PGMI lauded the efforts of Urology Department of Lahore General Hospital.