Introduction:

Over the past 20 years, WAR has emerged as one of the leading voices against sexual violence, particularly rape in Pakistan, with a view to provide comprehensive services and advocate rights-based government services for survivors. WAR is dedicated to assist survivors in their fight of justice and aid development, implementation and monitoring of appropriate rights-based integrated response to sexual violence in law-enforcement, medico-legal and judicial sectors in order to minimize secondary trauma to survivors. With successes in the legal field in the form of Criminal Laws Amendment (Protection of Women) Act, 2006, the establishment of several Women’s Police Stations in Karachi, in-camera trial hearings and several awareness and paralegal workshops behind it, WAR is continually engaged in promoting survivors’ access to justice, their empowerment, the containment of sexual violence and the protection and fulfilment of survivors’ rights.