The strange case of silent women
In conversations surrounding the ‘forced conversions’ of Hindu girls, the voices of the girls are missing ‘Forced conversions’ of young
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Women Rights
The agonies of daughters of Chitral
Innocent girls continually paying the price of cursed marriages without their consent By Suhail Ahmad Daughters, as the Quran
Read MoreWILDNESS. Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
In the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, thousands of young girls and women are kidnapped every year to be forced
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HISTORY: remembring Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)
Pankhurst was a leading British women’s rights activist, who led the movement to win the right for women to vote.
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The hegemony of mercantile class and commodification of faith
Haider Ali questions the role of South’s elite class in running community organizations and marginalization of GBC By Haider Ali
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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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AWP reaffirms resolve to fight against patriarchy, oppression of women
News Desk The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has expressed solidarity with working women struggling for equal rights and social justice
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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
Read MoreCase filed against Karan Johar, cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul for sexist remarks
News Desk Karan Johar and Indian cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul are being sued for comments made about women
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The long road to justice for a student stabbed 23 times
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News Islamabad On Wednesday, Khadija Siddiqui, a young Pakistani law student, watched the man who
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Nepali woman and children die in ‘menstrual hut’
REUTERS KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A woman and her two sons suffocated to death in Nepal after she was
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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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