The practice of child, early and forced marriage is widespread and occurs in all regions of Pakistan. On September 7, 2016 Aizan Development Foundation in collaboration with Sustainable Social Development Organization SSDO organized a one day workshop on Awareness on early Child Marriages as a part of their project End Child Marriages funded by the Swiss Embassy in Rawalpindi.

Mr. Kashif Kamal Director, Federal Ministry of Human Rights was Chief Guest of the session.
105 participants including lawyers, marriage registrars, clerics, religious leaders, teachers’ community heads and parents of out of school children attended the programme. ADF Executive Director Nazia Raja and ADF Project Officer Shahnila Naz attended the event.