Uks Research Centre

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- Learn What We Do
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Monitoring the media and analyzing the content for gender balance, bias and blindness
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Sea Change in Airwaves
Using Audio as a Catalyst for social change, empowerment and human rights
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Be our Partner not an Adversary
Training the journalists to promote gender equality in and through the media
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Uks Publications
Developing and Sharing Information and facts to ensure a more informed and gender sensitive media
- What we do
Uks is a research, resource and publication centre dedicated to the cause of gender equality and women's development.
- Vision
Uks strives to achieve gender equality and empower all women across various segments of society through and with in the media by challenging and eliminating the stereotypical and objectifying portrayal and representation of women in media content. Realizing the significance of gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development, Uks aims at changing the media mindset by means of advocacy trainings,consultations, publications, monitoring and documentation of the media and production of original media content to ensure balanced reporting from a gender perspective that is free of all sorts of biases, discrimination and sexism.
- Our Cause
Empowering Women
within and through
the media
Ensuring gender responsive media in Pakistan read more..




















- Media Monitoring
8150 Days of Print Media Archive
Uks Daily media monitoring and Monthly bulletins –Print, electronic and online media scrutinized through the gender lens Daily media monitoring and Monthly analyses for UNICEF – 20 + print and online English,
Urdu and Regional language publications
largest print media archive in the read more
- News & Insights
Upcoming Webinar: This webinar is part of a long-term project called Citizen Engagement for Responsive & Accountable Governance (Cerag) Supported by the European Union, and Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation had lead implementation responsibility to execute this project.
Dialogue for Change: Provincial Ombudsperson Rakhshanda Naz and Advocate PHC, Mehwish Muhib Kakakhel speaks on inheritance rights of women. Shaista Yasmeen, Projects Manager, Uks introduces a report on a working woman fighting for her inheritance rights, made by Uks Program Team . Watch Here
Dialogue for Change: The DfC explored why do the voices of women matter? How could the media make an extra effort in bringing out women and raising their voice within the media and balance the playing field. Watch Here
Uks’ Director Ms. Tasneem Ahmar speaks at the 4th global Athena40 conversation marking the International Women’s Day 2022. Click here to read the full whitepaper
Ms. Tasneem Ahmar, talks about online harassment faced by female journalists in Pakistan. Watch Here
Uks Research, Resource & Publication Center Islamabad and WACC Global jointly organized a webinar on the topic of Will the media start reporting rape? Read more
Unpacking the Media Coverage of the Motorway Rape Case. Watch the cogent discussion here
- Our Milestones Since 1997
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Radio & Digital Productions
- 32 Radio Series
- 316 Programmes
- 8 Digital Stories
- 32 Radio Series
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Trainings,
Workshops &
Consultations
- 40 Workshops for over 800 Students
- 43 Workshops for over 860 Journalists
- 8 Round Tables & On-Desk Consultations
- 94 Community Workshops with 2850 Participants
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Publications
- 24 Reports & Booklets
- 17 Desk Diaries
- 10 Toolkits
- 06 Global Researchers
- 22 Brochures
- Recent Publications
- Read the Report: Pakistani News Media through the lens of Constructive Journalism: A ‘message system’ analysis
- Read the Report: Pakistani Media In The Time Of Covid - A Gendered Focus
- Read: Uks' open letter to Pakistani entertainment media
- Read the Project Report: STRENGTHENING AND AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF WOMEN IN THE MEDIA IN POST-PANDEMIC PAKISTAN
- Read: Recent Newsletter (The Reflector - A biannual e-newsletter)
- Read: Diary 2022 (Women of Pakistan: Courage of Convictions, unlimited!)
- Satirical Web Series
Alternative News: Uks & WACC GLOBAL jointly present Satirical web series that captures the news through a woman’s lens. What makes this web series interesting is that the same thematic areas are now being presented through (sensitive and sensitized) humor, thereby inspiring people to think of content form and how it is consumed. Click here to watch
- What's New
An IFJ – Uks Women in Media Mentorship Pilot project to enhance and support women’s leadership development in Pakistan’s media industry. Uks, following IFJ’s guidelines has selected three female mentees- all working journalists- one each from Karachi, Quetta and Hunza

An exciting, immersive and collaborative experience for mentees and mentors, where we expect to be learning from each other and our lived experiences in journalism. Learn More
- Recent Projects
Uks’s Gender Equality in Media:
Beyond Advocacy and Awareness calls for a united effort, inclusive of all those involved in the production and presentation of skewed and many a times gender blind content in media, to initiate a conscious, concerted work to produce gender-neutral and gender-sensitive media content. A yearlong initiative, launched in May, 2018 aims to enhance media’s role as key influencer in creating positive perceptions on gender-equality as well as prevalent sexism in news and newsrooms. LEARN MORE
- Dialogue for Change DFC
Another one of Uks's novel initiatives-Dialogue for Change - is a series of panel discussions with media production teams on ensuring gender-responsive content in the news and entertainment media. Fourth in this series of events was a roundtable with media executives, gender experts and civil society to discuss the long and short-term impact of sexism and misogyny when these are not understood (fully or partially) by public in general and politicians and media in particular. LEARN MORE
- Conference on Ending News Media Sexism
Uks held a half-day conference
'Lessons from the Past for a Better Today and Tomorrow' to commemorate the International Women's Day. The panelists discussed the past, present and future of Gender Equality in News and Newsrooms in media in Pakistan. ('Learn more' link to 'news and insights' page. Detailed write-up below) LEARN MORE
We are all exhausted of the pandemic – enough to forget that it took extraordinary strength by extraordinary women for millions to make it through the year of the pandemic. In a world searching for saviours the real heroes were around us all the time – toiling away to overcome the odds while her immense labour and sacrifice was made invisible. Unthak is an anthem of hope – for the girls and women who have made it this far in the pandemic with their spirit in tact; for the millions who braved hardship and grief; for those who faced undue and overwhelming pressures in the confines of their home; and for the many uncounted who faced the considerable risk of abuse (physical and psychological) and were largely ignored in a pandemic whose response was not gender-responsive. An Uks production in association with Oxfam Pakistan, Global Affairs Canada and the Strengthening Participatory Organization Pakistan. Supported by the Women’s Voice and Leadership-Pakistan project, which is funded by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada.
- News Highlights
Cop commits suicide after killing sister
Three arrested in train gang-rape case: IGP railway
Education lowest priority of Sindh authorities
KP assembly passes bill for severe punishment
Child organ trade to be punished with death
No place for woman
Harassment of female students
Two transgenders gang-raped
Renovated room for women journalists inaugurated
Top in the World awarded to Mehr
Elderly couple given a day for reconciliation
- People Behind Uks
It was during her career as a professional journalist that Tasneem realized the need to sensitize and train the media over coverage of gender based issues which led to the formation of Uks.
Tasneem Ahmar
Founder & Director
- Editorials
When Will Media Learn?
Most, if not all, audiences seem to be fed up with the kind of dramas, soaps are being produced and shown on most of our entertainment channels. Only yesterday, sitting in the waiting area outside a hospital, my attention was caught by a conversation between two women. Read MoreHome may be a safe place- but not for everyone!
The second wave of COVID-19 is proving to be more dangerously fatal than the one a few months back. According to recent media reports, Pakistan records 2,829 new COVID-19 cases, 43 deaths and the situation is worsening with each passing day. Read more