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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Segments of media and right-wing groups accuse Aurat March organisers and marchers of ‘vulgarity’ and ‘obscenity’ for demanding equal rights.
Organisers and participants in women’s rights marches across Pakistan are facing a sustained campaign of misinformation, blasphemy allegations and threats, (...)
Healthcare is focus of event to mark International Women’s Day, as organisers say pandemic has led to setbacks in rights
A march during the time of Covid is a difficult thing to plan safely. For Pakistan’s women, determined to have their “Aurat March” today, there are other risks – to their (...)
Pakistan’s “Aurat Azadi March” (Women’s Freedom March), with its slogan “my body, my choice,” has become an extremely polarizing annual event. Its organizers are now facing increasing threats from right-wing groups.
Prior to the inception of the “Aurat Azadi March,” or the women’s freedom march, (...)
A popular actor was accused of harassment – now those who spoke against him are being charged under law meant to protect women
It takes a lot to rattle Leena Ghani. As an artist turned activist helping to raise the voices of Pakistan’s women, she has often fielded abuse, threats and harassment. (...)
Household workers face abuse and exploitation in plain sight
I was handed a glass of water while Salma* moved the extra clothes from the charpoy and adjusted herself right in front of me, fixing her shawl and making sure I was comfortable where I was sitting.
After a few minutes of small talk (...)
GUESSTIMATES are no substitute for hard data. Efforts to improve development indicators must be based on comprehensive, granular information that highlights weak spots and challenges. Initiatives can then be tailored to the situation on ground, thereby saving time and money. Without this (...)
THE pandemic has had a large impact on women who work in the informal sectors of Pakistan’s economy. And most women in Pakistan work in this sector, where they already have lower pays, longer work hours, irregular coverage of benefits, no job security and no social protections. Non-essential (...)
If your kidnapper-husband says you are 18, or have had your first period, no more questions are asked in Pakistan about abduction-conversions of young girls.
Their names change, their dreadful stories remain the same. It can be Kavita, Maria, Simran or Huma, what bonds their doomed fates in (...)
ACCORDING to Human Rights Watch, almost 1,000 women are murdered in Pakistan in the name of honour each year — killed on the grounds of ‘unacceptable’ amorous relationships, defiance of physical or cyber-gendered spaces, brazenness in dressing and language or perceived immorality.
Qandeel Baloch (...)
THE prime minister earned considerable credit the other day when he directed the relevant authorities to prepare for the release of women prisoners detained, or likely to be detained in future, for non-payment of fines, and to pay for the fines out of public funds.
This should be taken as the (...)
Stones, sticks and shoes were pelted at the campaigners in the country’s capital, Islamabad.
New Delhi: To mark International Women’s Day on Sunday, thousands of women took to the streets of Pakistan and marched through the capital of Islamabad and other cities, for what has come to be known as (...)
Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women’s rights in Pakistan.
Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan’s main urban centres to mark International Women’s Day.
It is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women’s march, has been (...)
Women marching with placards, using slogans like ‘mera jism meri marzi’ are not ‘good women’. And how dare they oppose maulanas and misogynists, Pakistan’s real feminists?
We are still a few days away from 8 March and regressive Pakistani men are already uncomfortable. This is an achievement. (...)
PAKISTAN is a country where generation after generation of children, especially girls, have been deprived of education. However, a low level of female literacy is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to gender inequality in Pakistan. Look at any gender indicator and Pakistan is a country (...)
THERE are good men in Pakistan. Somewhere sitting in some corner, perhaps a library or an office, are men who do not believe in being condescending and cruel, men who do not constantly interrupt women to insert their own thoughts or wishes or meaningless bluster. Somewhere there are men who (...)
JUNAID Hafeez was arrested on March 13, 2013, after an FIR was registered accusing him of blasphemy. At the time, he was a visiting lecturer in English literature at Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), in the city of Multan. His period of incarceration in a high security ward of New Central (...)
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