Our History
WAR‘s foundation was laid in 1989 in a meeting of. WAF itself had stemmed of an older organization, Shirkat Gah, found in 1975 by a group of women with a shared perspective on women’s rights and development. What initially was a group of 15 women holding informal meetings to address the rising number of rapes and gang rapes taking place in the city of Karachi just after two years was a registered organization, having its own office, advocating the rights of survivors of rape and arranging largely pro bono legal help for survivors from lawyers cum rights activists. Over the years, WAR has provided legal assistances in hundreds of cases that include rape, gang-rape, attempted rape, incest and male rape (sodomy).
