Women safety app to be launched tomorrow

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LAHORE: The Chief Minister’s Special Monitoring Unit, in collaboration with the Punjab Safe Cities Authority and the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW), will launch the Women Safety Smart Phone Application on Wednesday (tomorrow).

The application will allow women to notify the Police Integrated Command, Control and Communication (PPIC3) officials regarding the kind of harassment they are subjected to along with their exact geographic location.

The law enforcement agencies will dispatch a team of first responders to immediately tackle the situation upon receiving the notification.

The application has been comprehensively designed to allow women to report any experiences that renders the public space unsafe for them.

Published in Dawn January 3rd, 2017

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Mujtaba

Jan 03, 2017 01:15pm

What about men? Aren't we humans? We are harassed too.

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nusrat

Jan 03, 2017 03:34pm

How those women can use this app which don't have any smart phone?. There should be effective law .

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Muni

Jan 03, 2017 07:42pm

A great initiative! While issues remain--what about women with out smart phone--I think this is a great first step and very very welcome. To those who say what about men? Women are harassed more than men,

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Agha Ata

Jan 03, 2017 08:26pm

I think, ultimately we would need to educate our society. It is everyman's duty to respect and protect every woman he meets. We also need to treat men who are so control freak by developing a notion (to start with) that disrespecting a woman is not manhood. The only teachers we have to educate public is MEDIA.

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