Law on anti-women customs termed ineffective
PESHAWAR: A law introduced in 2011 to check anti-women customary practices, including denial of inheritance and forced marriages, has failed to deliver the goods as...
The creation of gender
By: Kamila Hyat We sometimes like to think that in the upper echelons of our deeply stratified society we have managed to cross the barriers...
Rights activists urge society to raise voice collectively
LAHORE: Human rights activists have demanded the government to increase 5 percent intra-provincial education budgets have urged the male dominated society to raise their voices...
26 madressah girls kept at house to settle loan dispute recovered
By: Shazia Hasan KARACHI: Twenty-six girls aged between five and 11 years in pink shalwar kameez and pink and burgundy hijabs, some crying and rubbing...
Govt to help promote Thar women artisans
MITHI: Speaking as chief guest at a seminar on ‘Current food insecurity situation and lives of women artisans’ organised by some non-governmental organisations here on...