LAHORE, March 7: The Jamaat-i-Islami has urged the need for establishing a 'world women relief forum' under the UNO to end women exploitation.

The forum should be authorized to visit the affected areas, meet local representatives and prepare a report on depth of crimes against women for raising a voice against the guilty states on the basis of this report, JI's women commission chairperson Afia Sarwar said in a statement on the eve of the world women's day on March 8.

She also emphasized to expose the women exploitation by multi-national companies in the form of the lowest-paid women workforce in their free trade zones in developing countries.

She said this kind of exploitation was not being opposed by NGOs as these organizations were working to accomplish the agenda of world monopolists. She said these NGOs were practically doing nothing for women labourers in fields and in offices except for raising attractive slogans like equality and economic freedom for women.

Opposing honour killings, Karo-Kari and bartering of women as inhuman, immoral, uncivilized and un-Islamic acts, she said the world women day gave the message that exploitation of women in any form was condemnable.

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