Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SPC
Sindh Progressive Committee (SPC) working group of seven left & nationalist parties including Jeay Sindh Mahaz, Labour Party, Workers Party, Communist Party, National Party, Waten Dost Inqlabi Party & Awami Party held demonstrations & rallies on 17th April all over Sindh against the (…)
, by MUSTAFA Zubeida
ON April 11, the Arts Council auditorium in Karachi resounded with festivity. The first National Convention on Home Based Workers (HBW) was being held there. The disturbance caused by crying babies and chattering women did not detract from the gravity of the serious stuff that was under (…)
, by MAQSOOD Riffat, SHAD Azra, Women Workers Help Line
End economic exploitation of women, hundreds joined the rally and women Mela in Lahore, Women Workers Help Line mobilized the largest gathering of working class women in Lahore
Hundreds of working class women participated in a rally on the eve of international day of women in Lahore. The rally (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ART-019-2012 March 8, 2012
An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: WOMEN’S DAY — Rape victim blaming attitude
Rape victim blaming has its roots in all societies and causes are surely riddled in the culture. Stigmatization of the rape victim, (…)
, by HBWWF, KHAN Zehra
Rally on women’s day by HBWWF and LHW in Karachi
Thousands of women of working class march with red flags through the streets of busy Sadder area Karachi to press for their demand to accept them as worker and cover under social security schemes and to regularize the lady health workers. The (…)
, by AHMAD Ammara
About two weeks back, the newspaper Dawn published a shocking report on widespread and systematic sexual harassment being committed in the International Islamic University, Islamabad against several female students and subordinates. An economics professor and librarian traded sexual favors for (…)
, by SHAH Shahid
My culture, the Pashtun culture, has its own traditions that dominate every other law. These traditions are, however, constructed by men. and for men. Women are the silent victims.
To begin with, her birth is always a bad news. A girl’s responsibility is to obey all those around her and never (…)
, by SHEHRBANO ZIA Afiya
Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Religion Gender Politics Islamic militancy in Pakistan appears to be mobilising women suicide bombers as part of its religious trope. This trend unsettles the conservative divide between the public and private roles of women in traditional societies, and also (…)
, by EHTISHAM Syed Akhtar
The usual honor killings in the tribe and clan ridden Pakistan, on the other hand are in most cases deliberate, well planned and premeditated acts when a relative of a female kills her ostensibly to uphold his honor, though it is well established that in most cases overriding motive is (…)
, by HRCP, YUSUF Zohra
Several students and teachers of Philosophy department of University of Punjab New Campus Lahore were severely beaten up by the goons of Islami jamiat Tuleba at hostel number seven of University of Punjab on 26th June, Their only crime was to take out a rally a day earlier to condemn the fascist (…)
, by KHAN Zar Ali
Tableeghi Jumat is opposed to the Pashtun culture and is busy working against the culture of Pashtun. They are promoting Arabization, an Arab culture in the name of religion Islam. They do not like Pashtun names and name their near and dear as Arabs. These religious people have entered into each (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
LAHORE: “Pakistan’s informal sector has grown about 20 percent in the last one decade, giving rise to exploitation of poor workers, especially home-based women workers by the business class. The informal sector workers are invisible, highly vulnerable and at the mercy of middlemen, contractors (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
Why home-based women workers need social protection on urgent basis?
Women’s labor rights particularly in the informal sector have long been neglected and almost remained invisible having no access to labor rights or other social security schemes while private investors are only interested in (…)
, by HBWWF
Annual Convention
Of
Home Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF), Pakistan
(11 April 2011, Art Council Auditorium, Karachi)
It is historic event that the Home based Women Workers Federation, Pakistan (HBWWF), registered is going to organize it 1st Annual Convention on 11 April 2011 at (…)
, by HAROON Sana
That the guardians of women’s virtue should present a direct threat to it, encapsulates the essential paradox of popular opinion about the Taliban movement in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, says Sana Haroon.
Social acceptance of the Taliban movement in Pakistan’s north-west (…)
, by SHEHRBANO ZIA Afiya
Collaboration between western academia and Pakistani women at home and in the diaspora has established a body of donor-funded research with an exclusive focus on Islam. Will development policies based on such research lead to any kind of liberation?
Recourse to religion and a focus on (…)
, by IHI
Representatives of civil society, minorities and concerned citizens of Islamabad gathered today under the auspices of the Insani Haqooq Ittehaad – IHI (Human Rights Alliance) to denounce Federal Shariat Court’s the recent decision on Women’s Protection Act, demand the abolishing of Federal (…)
, by AHRC
December 23, 2010.
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Sharia Court Launches Major Challenge to Protection of Women Act
On 22 December 2010, after three years and four petitions, the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) of Pakistan declared several critical clauses of the (…)
, by CRILLY Rob, SAHI Aoun
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, has been sentenced to hang in Pakistan after being convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed.
Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine (…)
, by FEELEY Dianne, FINKEL David, KHALIQ Bushra
BUSHRA KHALIQ IS general secretary of the Women Workers Help Line (www.wwhl.org.pk) and a member of Labour Party Pakistan. She visited the United States in June, 2010 to speak at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, and spoke in several cities at meetings organized by Solidarity and the (…)
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