NOORPUR THAL - The Ghousia Welfare Society (GWS) held a candlelight vigil at VTI Centre in connection with the National Day for Women Empowerment and the Violence Elimination here the other day.

Addressing the participants, GWS Chairman Allama Naveed Arshed said that human rights were considered to be incomplete without the implementation of compulsory women rights.
Speaking on the occasion, National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) In-charge Madam Tanveer Haider, educationist Atta Muhammad Naeemi and former Vice-Chairman Malik Manzoor Ahmad said that worldwide governments and organizations actively work to combat violence against women through a variety of programmes. They said that millions of women and girls around the world were assaulted, beaten, raped, mutilated or even murdered in what constitutes appalling violations of their human rights.