Struggles and shadows: the urban nightmare for Pakistani women
Soaring violence against women exposes systemic failures, and complicity by Ghafar Bugti The chilling headlines emerging from Punjab over the
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Combating GBV: a call for collective action
Gender-based violencet is deeply rooted in society and manifests in various forms, including physical, sexual, psychological, and economic abuse. It’s crucial to establish the universality of the problem to garner global support and collaboration and to address this pervasive issue.
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Ban on women: Taliban in a standoff with UN
The UN has asked all its staff to remain at home after the Taliban banned Afghan women from working for the world body. Hundreds of Afghan women employed by the UN are critical in delivering life-saving aid in Afghanistan, where millions are at risk of starvation.
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Afghan women’s woes
In addition to needing a male chaperone to go places within the war-torn country, women are now required to bring a male family member with them if they hope to study abroad.
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Feminism: 5 books every woman should read
Here is a list of five feminist writers and their works that everyone, especially women, who want to understand feminism should read.
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Pakistan’s beauty salons employing acid attack survivors
A job scheme for women who may otherwise be shunned as outcasts is allowing many to rebuild their lives. Shah
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‘People’s economic rights must not be sacrificed at the altar of national security’
The audience at the first Asma Jehangir memorial lecture organised by the HRCP at Islamabad Hotel on Tuesday. Credit: Asif
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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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Youth, women drive spur social business growth in Pakistan: global poll
By Zofeen Ebrahim and Elena Berton KARACHI/LONDON, Oct 22: From turning organic waste into fertiliser to sharing farm equipment,
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Beyond her: a photographic journey
By Kamran Karim The photographic journey offers a space for observers to create their own world of imagination and
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Pakistan’s women heroes: Asma Jahangir
Women who named the unnamed: tribute to the brilliance by Sameena Siddiqui Who they are, they are bizarre! But them
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The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation
The position of women rests, as everything in our complex society, on an economic base.—Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling by Margaret Benston The
Read MorePakistan: where daily slaughter of women barely makes news
The stories of murdered women are recorded with grim regularity in one and half inches of a single newspaper column
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Ramazan package in Hunza: lessons to learn
Dr Reshma Perveen-Mosofir Today I woke up to photographs on my newsfeed on social media showing women sitting in a
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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