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Legal Aid Office (Pakistan)

Karachi, Pakistan
Joined October 2015
Presence in: Pakistan
Focus: Citizenship & Identification, Community / Customary Land Rights, Criminal Justice, Education, Family, Gender-based violence, Generalist Legal Services, Governance, Accountability & Transparency, Labor & Employment

We are a government funded, non-profit organization, that works specifically for the welfare of prisoners. The Legal Aid Office (“LAO”) was granted permission by the Government of Sindh to set up its office and work to benefit inmates of the Special Prison for Women (“Women’s Prison”) and the Youthful Offenders Industrial School (“YOIS”) in Karachi in July, 2004.