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, by HASAN Fakhra
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 (…)
, by HOODBHOY Pervez
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 (…)
, by HUSSAIN Faheem
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 (…)
, by KHAN S.H., GUERIN Orla, IQBAL Sajid, MAHR Krista, REHMAN BACHA Khalilur
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 (…)
, by PEER Basharat
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 (…)
, by DAD Nighat
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. (…)
, by Awami Party, CPP (Pakistan), LPP, MINTO Abid Hasan, QAZI Imdad, RAHU Younas, UMER Jamil, WPP
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 (…)
, by SPC
Sindh Progressive Committee (SPC) working group of seven left & nationalist parties including Jeay Sindh Mahaz, Labour Party, Workers Party, Communist Party, National Party, Waten Dost Inqlabi Party & Awami Party held demonstrations & rallies on 17th April all over Sindh against the (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ART-019-2012 March 8, 2012
An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: WOMEN’S DAY — Rape victim blaming attitude
Rape victim blaming has its roots in all societies and causes are surely riddled in the culture. Stigmatization of the rape victim, (…)
, by AHMAD Ammara
About two weeks back, the newspaper Dawn published a shocking report on widespread and systematic sexual harassment being committed in the International Islamic University, Islamabad against several female students and subordinates. An economics professor and librarian traded sexual favors for (…)
, by SHAH Shahid
My culture, the Pashtun culture, has its own traditions that dominate every other law. These traditions are, however, constructed by men. and for men. Women are the silent victims.
To begin with, her birth is always a bad news. A girl’s responsibility is to obey all those around her and never (…)
, by SHEHRBANO ZIA Afiya
Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Religion Gender Politics Islamic militancy in Pakistan appears to be mobilising women suicide bombers as part of its religious trope. This trend unsettles the conservative divide between the public and private roles of women in traditional societies, and also (…)
, by EHTISHAM Syed Akhtar
The usual honor killings in the tribe and clan ridden Pakistan, on the other hand are in most cases deliberate, well planned and premeditated acts when a relative of a female kills her ostensibly to uphold his honor, though it is well established that in most cases overriding motive is (…)
, by HRCP, YUSUF Zohra
Several students and teachers of Philosophy department of University of Punjab New Campus Lahore were severely beaten up by the goons of Islami jamiat Tuleba at hostel number seven of University of Punjab on 26th June, Their only crime was to take out a rally a day earlier to condemn the fascist (…)
, by KHAN Zar Ali
Tableeghi Jumat is opposed to the Pashtun culture and is busy working against the culture of Pashtun. They are promoting Arabization, an Arab culture in the name of religion Islam. They do not like Pashtun names and name their near and dear as Arabs. These religious people have entered into each (…)
, by HAROON Sana
That the guardians of women’s virtue should present a direct threat to it, encapsulates the essential paradox of popular opinion about the Taliban movement in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, says Sana Haroon.
Social acceptance of the Taliban movement in Pakistan’s north-west (…)
, by SHEHRBANO ZIA Afiya
Collaboration between western academia and Pakistani women at home and in the diaspora has established a body of donor-funded research with an exclusive focus on Islam. Will development policies based on such research lead to any kind of liberation?
Recourse to religion and a focus on (…)
, by IHI
Representatives of civil society, minorities and concerned citizens of Islamabad gathered today under the auspices of the Insani Haqooq Ittehaad – IHI (Human Rights Alliance) to denounce Federal Shariat Court’s the recent decision on Women’s Protection Act, demand the abolishing of Federal (…)
, by AHRC
December 23, 2010.
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Sharia Court Launches Major Challenge to Protection of Women Act
On 22 December 2010, after three years and four petitions, the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) of Pakistan declared several critical clauses of the (…)
, by CRILLY Rob, SAHI Aoun
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, has been sentenced to hang in Pakistan after being convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed.
Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine (…)
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