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The Sexual Harassment Bill was created to ensure women's safety in public and work spaces, while the Prevention of Anti-Women Practices Bill sought to constitutionally protect women against discriminatory social practices, such as forced marriages, which can deprive women of their inheritance rights. [2]
Pakistan is known for widespread discrimination against religious minorities, with attacks against Christians, Hindus, Ahmadiyya, Shia, Sufi and Sikh communities being widespread. These attacks are usually blamed on religious extremists but certain laws in the Pakistan Criminal Code and government inaction have only caused these attacks to ...
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. Described as an international bill of rights for women, it was instituted on 3 September 1981 and has been ratified by 189 states. [1]
National Commission on the Status of Women; قومی کمیشن برائے وقار نسواں: Abbreviation: NCSW: Formation: 2000: Legal status: Statutory body of the Government of the Pakistan Human rights institution: Purpose: Achieve gender equality Women's Empowerment Elimination of discrimination and violence against Women: Location
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban administration has rolled back hard-fought rights won by Afghan women and girls during two decades of rule by American ...
The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is urging for increased measures of protection for women against sexual harassment and violence in the workplace. 54% (272) had experienced some form of workplace sexual harassment. 79% of the victims are women; 21% were men. [56]
The bill moved by government established the commission as a permanent body with the task to ensure the implementation of women protection legislation for abuses against women. In February 2012, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement held the world's largest women's political rally in Karachi , with an estimated 100,000 women in attendance.
Article 1 declares that discrimination against women is "fundamentally unjust and constitutes an offence against human dignity". [4] "Discrimination" is not defined. Article 2 calls for the abolition of laws and customs which discriminate against women, for equality under the law to be recognised, and for states to ratify and implement existing ...