Aurat Foundation, in collaboration with Gender Studies Department of University of Balochistan (UoB) organized, under its Listen project, a theatre performance on ‘Early Child Marriages and Violence against Women’, on May 26, 2014, at University of Balochistan, Quetta. Prof. Dr Mehrab Baloch, Vice Chancellor of UoB was the Chief Guest.

Mr Ishfaq Mengal, Senior Programme Officer, Aurat Foundation, expressed his views on early child marriages and also shared facts and figures of violence against women in Balochistan. Students from Gender, Education, Sociology and Mass Communication departments performed the theater on early child marriages and a silent play on VAW.

Speaking at the occasion, Prof. Dr Mehrab Baloch, in his remarks highlighted the importance of education in the society and stressed to focusmore and more on girls’ education because it will prevent them from all kinds of violence. At the end of the program, Ms Shahida Durrani, Lecturer, Department of Gender Studies, UoB, thanked the Chief Guest, and the participants.