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London is experiencing an increase in the honor killings. Thousands of young women in Britain are living in fear of the 'hidden scourge' of so-called honour killing, authorities are of the view that a murder for so-called honor is committed every two...
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A ghastly incident of stoning two women to death has come to the fore and this time the incident has occurred in Sudan, recently a similar case has reported to hit from Pakistan.
The women met such a gruesome fate because they were charged with...
Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women.
In South Asian countries, the culture of patriarchy is deeply...
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Domestic Violence, South Asia, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Iran, Bangladesh, Politics & Society
As we are still hankering for women's reservation bill, recent statistics postulates that India does not fare as good as its neighbors in South Asia in women's representation in the national legislatures especially with Pakistan and Bangladesh....
In a women's forum, President Pervez Musharraf assured to empower women, provide them more opportunities and end injustices against them.
On the issue of the Women's Protection Law which was violently opposed by conservatives, he said, 'I...
Women lawyers led by Mussarat Hillali, S. Naz Mohammadzai and Shehnaz Hameed Khattak, staged a rally in response to the acceptance of the Hasba bill and insisted the NWFP governor not to sign it. They also offered a memorandum at the Governor's...
Some of the so-called 'conservative Islamic lawmakers' of Pakistan stormed out of the parliament in response to the controversial bill regarding rape and adultery.
The bill has been passed by the lower house of the parliament according to which,...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said that its government is looking forward to pass more legislation to protect women's rights.
He said that PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had proposed the draft of another bill with the National...
The Daily Times have stated that Afghans who are residing in 18 camps in the north western Kohat and Hangu districts of Pakistan have declined to register themselves as refugees because they are not in favour of male photographers clicking their female...
While addressing the third Asian Women Entrepreneur Eid Fair, Commerce and Water Resource Minister, Hafiz Uddin Ahmed asserted that women entrepreneurs play a very important part in the financial growth of the country.
Representatives from Pakistan,..
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