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, by Aurat March, Karachi
It was on 8th March 2018 when Aurat March started in Karachi as well as other major cities across the country. We have been marching for seven years; we have shaken the patriarchal status quo in Pakistan; and we are now a well-known entity.
This important annual event has not only increased in (…)
, by The News (Pakistan)
LAHORE: Thousands of female domestic workers endure harassment, abuse, and exploitation due to inadequate legal safeguards, entrenched societal norms, and economic vulnerability in the country.
In a press statement, Arooma Shahzad, secretary general of the Domestic Workers Union (DWU) Monday (…)
, by SHEIKH Salman Rafi
Nominating women to reserved legislative seats has done little for the cause of women in Pakistan. Political parties must be made to field more winning women candidates.
In Pakistan’s last general election, in February 2024, Suriya Bibi became the first woman to be elected to the provincial (…)
LAHORE - On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2024, the All Pakistan Women Association strongly advocated for registration of its members’ Home-Based Workers Union and emphasised their right to social security.
A collaborative endeavor, led by the All Pakistan Women (…)
, by AAMIR Asma
Asma Aamir writes about the Pakistani feminist movements history and current practices, their challenges and ways forward
I would like to talk about Pakistan, a country that has not a secular State, like Turkey and others. It is officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, run by the federal (…)
, by BEGAM Amana
Pakistani cricketer Abdul Razzaq, while referring to the Pakistan Cricket Board, declared that marriage to Indian actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would never result in “good-natured” and “moral” children. Razzaq’s nauseating remarks, which he has since deemed as a “slip of tongue”, don’t exactly (…)
, by Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee - PKRC
Lahore - Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee organized Peasant Women gathering in Lahore press club at the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations and International Day of Rural Women. Two hundred women participated in today’s gathering.
Farooq (…)
, by BHUTTO Fatima
When my country, Pakistan, flooded last year, women faced particular suffering. That’s true around the world
Last summer, a third of Pakistan was underwater. My country, the fifth most populous in the world, was submerged. Two million homes were destroyed, thousands of acres of agricultural (…)
, by ABBAS Qammar
Participants highlight the role of women in the fight for climate justice
Lahore: More than forty bikers took part in the all-women Pedal for People and Planet bike actions held at Bagh e Jinnah to celebrate International Women’s Month.
The bike action aimed to raise awareness on climate (…)
, by ZAKARIA Rafia
TODAY is International Women’s Day. On this single day out of 365 days, women review the progress that they have been able to make over the past year. In most countries, it is understood that the single day allotted to women is not a measure of their importance in society but rather a day of (…)
A national conference on girls’ right to education stressed on the role of academia, civil society and government towards making education compulsory for all by implementing the Article 25-A of the constitution of Pakistan, which ensures free and compulsory education to all children, including (…)
, by HAIDER Mariyam
Through her women’s organisation Tehrik-e-Niswan, she has spent decades holding performances about social issues.
In Pasoori, the runaway hit music video by Coke Studio, the first shot viewers see is of a grey-haired woman in a striking yellow sari standing in a high prayer pose. As the music (…)
, by JANJUA Haroon
Minister says women’s march violates Islamic values, prompting counter-events organised by religious groups
More than 1,000 veiled women attended marches to promote Islamic values in cities across Pakistan on International Women’s Day in an attempt to counter pro-gender equality rallies.
In (…)
, by ZIA Afiya S.
The Aurat Marches have brought forth an entirely young leadership and a rude breaking of the silence on sexuality. But what next?
Since 2018, the Aurat March annual events have reclaimed the publics across different cities of Pakistan and have provoked political reaction, inspired scholarly (…)
, by ZAKARIA Rafia
It was January 1979. The Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, had just left his country but Imam Khomeini had not yet arrived in Iran. It was a moment of tumult and confusion, and no one was certain who would take over. It was around this time that a group called CAIFI (Committee for Artistic and (…)
Government faces backlash from the civil society for opposing the Women’s March on International Women’s Day in Pakistan
Civil-society organisations, including women rights groups, condemned the government minister’s proposal to ban ‘Aurat (women) March.’ Conservative politicians and a (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
The refusal by a sessions court in Karachi to consider DNA tests as evidence in the retrial of the Mazar-i-Quaid gang-rape case is surprising, given that the Supreme Court had declared DNA evidence to be admissible in rape cases many years ago. A few days ago, the court acquitted for the second (…)
, by HOODBHOY Pervez
Implementation of the PTI’s Single National Curriculum has started in Islamabad’s schools and for students the human body is to become a dark mystery, darker than ever before. Religious scholars appointed as members of the SNC Committee are supervising the content of schoolbooks in all subjects (…)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
FOR more than four days, the PTI government remained mum in the face of pitched battles across Pakistan between activists of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan and local police that erupted after TLP chief Saad Rizvi was arrested from Lahore. And then came the announcement by the interior minister (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra, MORENO Tica , PESSOA Bianca
Capire talked to Bushra Khaliq, from the World March of Women, about women’s struggles in South Asia for their rights and liberty.
In Pakistan, the culture and the daily life are dominated by religion. Since 1977 an islamization took place, forming the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The (…)
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