Articles with tag: women rights
It is Time: The Women’s Right Movement in Pakistan
Taji M Sep 3, 2009 interacts: 74It should not take a gang rape or burning alive of a woman to make our media take notice and our bigwigs to make pronouncements about women’s welfare.
Fatima Jinnah: A Beacon Of Hope
Danya Ehsan Mar 10, 2009 interacts: 23When I think about what does being a Pakistani woman mean to me, I think of Fatima Jinnah’s aspirations. But do those aspirations come into the minds of ordinary Pakistani women?
Happy Mother's Day
Ammara Ahmad May 11, 2008 interacts: 15Today, 11th May is Mother’s Day. It is almost absurdly romantic that a country like Pakistan would celebrate a day like to honor mothers!
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful
Azra Rashid Apr 20, 2008 interacts: 1022According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in 2007, 1205 women were reported to have been killed in the name of honor. Each year the number is doubling.
A Profile In Courage
Rakesh Mani Apr 22, 2007 interacts: 6A recipient of the Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award in Pakistan and the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious human rights honour, she declined an offered post as the first female judge on the Pakistan Supreme Court, stating she thought she could effe
Fight Hudood, Protect Women
Beena Sarwar Mar 6, 2007 interacts: 414Pervez Musharraf’s amendment of Pakistan’s Sharia laws represents only a partial victory against legislation that many have been fighting against for over two decades.
Rape and Exploitation - Pakistan’s Dilemma
Bina Shah Sep 18, 2005 interacts: 194Musharraf will very probably live to regret this instance of foot-in-mouth disease, but the only way to show Pakistani women, and the world, that he has had it cured is to take very concrete steps for the protection of and the achievement of justice for e
Savita’s Choice
Kalpana Sharma Sep 18, 2005 interacts: 6Hundreds of child marriages are held across Rajasthan with no one stopping them. The reality sinks in when the children attain puberty by which time they are told they have no choice. But they do.
Because He Couldn’t Get It Up!
Azra Rashid Sep 17, 2005 interacts: 68It is not easy being a woman in Pakistan.
Rape of another Kind
naeem sadiq Sep 17, 2005 interacts: 45He must publicly and unconditionally apologise to every citizen of Pakistan.
The Violence Factor
Naveen Qayyum Feb 24, 2005 interacts: 9The society where there is prevalent economic deprivation, huge class disparities, lacks of correct understanding of our histories and identities, absence of democracy and political participation violence against women and its growth becomes inevitable.
Politics of De-veiling
Adnan Sattar Jun 12, 2004 interacts: 51The headscarves issue in France is profoundly reminiscent of the policies of the French coloniser in Algeria who, in the words of Frantz Fanon, ‘solemnly undertook to defend this woman, pictured as humiliated, sequestered, cloistered’
