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Similar The Asia Foundation, Women's Learning Partnersh, Sarhad Rural Support P, ActionAid, Aman Foundation | ||
Aurat Foundation is a women's rights organization based in Islamabad, Pakistan. Aurat Foundation does active lobbying and advocacy on behalf of women. It also holds demonstrations and public-awareness campaigns.
Aurat Foundation has its Head Office in Islamabad, and four regional offices in the provincial capitals (Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta). Further, AF has a countrywide network of voluntary citizens' groups and individual activists. These groups include Citizens Action Committees (CACs), Resource Groups and Aurat Foundation Resource Centres (AF-RCs) and Information Network Centres (INCs). With its local partners in all the districts of Pakistan, AF is a national orzation with the largest district level network in the country. AF is a civil society organization working for women's empowerment and citizens' rights with the collaboration of citizens' groups and organizations to provide information, build capacity and undertake advocacy for women's issues and for good governance in Pakistan.