Interpreting ‘Me Too’ Movement for Pakistan
By Anita Bakhtiar If you want an honest and surprising look into what the ‘Me Too’ Movement constitutes without
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Patriarchy
GB journalists trained on gender-sensitive reporting
HRCP, AKHSP conduct training workshop for reporters about gender issues; code of ethics to be developed for local reporters
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Woman stoned to death in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission probing video of a woman being stoned to death Ghor province High Asia Herald Report
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Food taboos: Kalasha women victim of faith, patriarchy
High Asia Herald Report There are certain food taboos in some Asian and African communities and tribes that are prohibited
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Kulsoom Hazara: Pakistan’s karate superstar
Nothing is impossible for the girl who lost her parents before her 10th birthday. Her resilience has taken her from strength to strength
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Celebrating Heer who challenged patriarchy in Punjab
Artists, historians, and writers are marking Punjab’s secular epic, 250 years after it was penned by Waris Shah
Read MoreThe agonies of daughters of Chitral
Innocent girls continually paying the price of cursed marriages without their consent By Suhail Ahmad Daughters, as the Quran
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Women’s Action Forum: looking back on 38 years activism
Herald Report As we celebrate the near four decades struggle launched by women activists for equal rights in Pakistani society
Read MorePatriarchy and undignified role of women in Gilgit-Baltistan
By Shahzaib Hassan What is the role of women in economic activities and social development of Gilgit-Baltistan’s society and what
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Patriarchy strikes back
EVEN for a society that views most form of rights-based activism with suspicion, the backlash against Aurat March has been
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A rising movement
Tooba Syed MARCH 8, 2019, will be remembered as a day of hope and unabashed protest, in which thousands of
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What is patriarchy?
Patriarchy is the name given to a dynamic web of ideas, policies, laws, and social practices that bring male domination
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Nationalist strongmen are bent on controlling women’s bodies
From Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro to Hungary led by Viktor Orbán, women’s reproductive rights are being targeted Afua Hirsch When
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Women rights activists stress need to redefine ‘consent’
News Desk JAMSHORO: Women’s rights activists turned up in large numbers on Saturday at a talk on ‘Redefining consent’ as
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The year in patriarchy: from Kavanaugh’s fury to Serena Williams’s catsuit
Arwa Mahdawi From pop culture to politics, 2018 was a year of extraordinary firsts for women. But the past year
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