Tag: women rights

United Nations human rights rapporteurs have expressed outrage at the reported rise in abductions, forced marriages, and conversions of underage ...

A Karachi woman became victim to harassment and intimidation by her employer, allegedly backed by the owner of a prominent ...

In deeply patriarchal communities, when male chauvinism decides a matter and deems it sacred, women have no choice but to ...

One in three women face sexual assault at the hands of their partner or non-partner according to a report by ...

Although phrases, such as ‘women in development’, are mentioned in social discourses far to often in Pakistan, they sound hollow ...

My biggest fear, apart from losing a loved one, is to end up in an abusive relationship. I understand that ...

The recent judicial upheaval in the United States, with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and thereby robbing millions ...

In Pakistan, violence against women is both a crime and a socially accepted norm. Though gender disparities have persisted for ...

It is considered that Pakistanis are more critical of their state, society and establishment than, for example, Indians are of ...

@shabanashaukat4 recently tweeted that a prayer leader at a mosque in Kanganpur, District Kasur, announced that a mother had left ...

There are many ways to condone violence against women. For the murder of social media star Qandeel Baloch, the Lahore ...

As the struggle for peace and nation-building in Pakistan was dominated by the male leadership, women are considered to have ...

Resilience means being able to return, recover or withstand. In the specific case of a human being described as resilient, ...

A recent decision by the Federal Shariat Court which stated that women who seek khula (divorce) must return all of ...

A woman activist in Afghanistan, Tamana Zaryab Paryani, has reportedly been arrested and detained by the Taliban for her involvement ...