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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-037-2015 March 07, 2015
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Women’s Day-despite enactment of progressive laws there is persistent regression of women’s right
8th March is celebrated across the world as the international women’s day, yet (…)
The lack of the state’s willingness to redress gender disparities is discernible from the discriminatory legislation that continues to be on the statute book.
Pakistan is ranked at the 141th position in the Global Gender Gap Report (GGGR), 2014, the second lowest spot on a list of 142 (…)
As the country frenzies towards a revolution and annihilation of the ‘status quo’ with a powerful dose of ‘change,’ one does feel rather underwhelmed by the testosterone-infected political rhetoric all around. The paternalism of the discourse is as much ‘status quo’ as are the clerics, pirs, (…)
Women workers give Nov 20 deadline to government
Threaten with dharna outside Punjab Assembly if law not passed
Progressive Home Based Workers Federation comes into being, takes oath
LAHORE: Women Home Based Workers (HBWs) from all over Punjab have warned the government of a dharna (…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-182-2014 October 15, 2014
A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: The AHRC takes the greatest pleasure in congratulating Malala for being awarded the Nobel Prize
Malala Yousafzai; the epitome of the fight against religious oppression of (…)
Recipients of humanitarian awards often invite controversy. In Pakistan, religious and political identities are valued more than the contributions of such recipients. Malala Yousafzai may have the Nobel Peace Prize, but she remains the target of criticism from Pakistani conservatives and also (…)
Press release
HRCP appalled by woman’s murder outside LHC
Lahore, May 28: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious alarm and disgust over the murder of a young woman, who was killed by her family in a manner like stoning to death, close to the Lahore High Court (…)
The political space of Pakistan has taken turns for the worst over the years. There is an ever increasing influence of Islamists who sell religion to gain power. Increase in their influence means that liberal and progressive elements are losing power, if they ever had any. Political scene is (…)
DO we have increasing incidents of rape in Pakistan? Recently a large number of cases were reported of young women — even little girls — being assaulted by men. Some were brutally murdered. There has been an outcry from some women’s groups but the government has remained silent.
The Women’s (…)
In this age where women and girl children do not receive the protection promised to them by the constitutions of so many countries the challenge for the human rights community in this century is to uplift their rights and lives. The struggle must include equality for women and justice for the (…)
Khawar Mumtaz, Chairperson National Commission on Status of Women and leading women’s rights activist talks about the society’s reaction to rape cases, recourse to justice and media’s all-intrusive coverage.
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The News on Sunday (TNS): The response to December 16, 2012 (…)
Politically speaking, Malala’s gravest error was to survive the attack by the Taliban gunmen who shot her in the head on her way back from school in 2012. Had she succumbed to her injuries or deteriorated to a vegetative state in some underequipped Swat hospital then she may have been forgiven (…)
In 2010, two years into the democratically elected, PPP-led civilian government, Ammara Durrani (Communication Specialist, Ministry of Information) asked me to write a brief assessment of its record, thus far, on the ‘woman question’ for an official publication. As a Pakistani feminist, I have (…)
Women in Struggle for Empowerment (WISE) and “Drag It to the Top” jointly organized a seminar cum discussion, Tuesday 5th March, on gender diversity and women’s human rights issues as a precursor to the International Women’s Day celebrations that officially begin on the 8th of March 2013.
The (…)
For a Pakistani woman seeking to travel on a motorcycle, socially sanctioned rules define how she may sit. Although unwritten and unspoken, these are inviolable: First, no girl or woman may drive a motorcycle or clasp the handlebars with both hands. Second, although she can be a passenger behind (…)
As the women’s movement in Pakistan became more subsumed by the transnational movement it faced the pressures to discard its ‘secular and elitist’ baggage. This implied accommodating the Islamist feminist tendencies of the Farhat Hashmi of Al Huda variety.
The women’s rights movement in (…)
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a hideous attack on a young schoolgirl they deemed “an infidel” for championing her right to go to school.
A 14-year-old activist and blogger was shot in the head on her way back from school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Tuesday, the latest in a (…)
On Tuesday afternoon, Taliban militants attacked and seriously injured Malala Yousafzai, a fourteen-year-old campaigner for education for girls in Mingora, a town in Swat Valley, in Pakistan’s North Western Frontier Province. Malala was returning home from school when the men attacked; a (…)
An exceedingly sad, insensate and astounded feeling comes to mind while writing this piece about an innocent 14 year-old activist Malala Yousafzai shot in Swat, Pakistan earlier today. This young girl who exemplifies active participation in the Take Back the Tech! campaign in Pakistan. (…)
We, progressive organisations from all over Pakistan and Kashmir, jointly resolve to: Condemn the barbaric acts of kidnapping, forced conversion and “marriage” to strangers of Sindhi Hindu young women by powerful vested interests in connivance with so-called “religious” elements, whose heinous (…)
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