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The status of women in Pakistan varies across classes, regions and the rural/urban divide due to socioeconomic differences and the impact of tribal and feudal social traditions. Gender Concerns International reports that women's rights in Pakistan have improved overall, with the increasing number of educated and literate women. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The legislative assembly of Pakistan has enacted several measures designed to give women more power in the areas of family, inheritance, revenue, civil, and criminal laws. These measures are an attempt to safeguard women's rights to freedom of speech and expression without gender discrimination. These measures are enacted keeping in mind the ...
Aware Girls was formed in Peshawar in 2002 [4] by sisters Gulalai Ismail and Saba Ismail, at the time aged 16 and 15 respectively. [5] They began by campaigning in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa area against gender based violence such as honour killings and acid attacks and then by educating girls and women about their human rights, giving them negotiating skills to use within their families [6] and ...
[57] [58] According to lawyer Asma Jahangir, who is a co-founder of the women's rights group Women's Action Forum, up to seventy-two percent of women in custody in Pakistan are physically or sexually abused. [59] There have been several thousand "honour" killings in Pakistan in the past decade, with hundreds reported in 2013. [1]
Although education for women in Pakistan is a right since 1976 there is still a sizable gender gap, specifically in higher education for women. From data collected in 2003-2004 enrollment of women in bachelor's degree programs was 43.5% as compared to their male counterparts who had an enrollment of 56.49%.
In July 2020, NCSW and UN women Pakistan launched Young Women in Pakistan: Status Report 2020 according to which 29% of young married women face controlling behaviors by husbands, 15% of them have experienced physical violence and 4% have exposed to sexual violence by anyone other than spouse, while 14% of currently married women have faced ...
Violence against women in Pakistan, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights in Pakistan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Women in Pakistan mainly encounter violence by being forced into marriage , through workplace sexual harassment , domestic violence and by honour killings .
The Aurat Azadi March (Urdu: عورت آزادی مارچ, lit. 'Women's Emancipation March') was started in 2018 [1] in Pakistan by members of Women Democratic Front [2] [3] (socialist-feminist organization), other organizations like Women's Action Forum (Women's rights organization), Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls alliance, Young Teachers Association, Home-Based Women ...