violence against women

6 Reasons Why Rape is an Under-Reported Crime Hardly a week passes in our country without there being a media report about an incident of rape […]

Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Human Rights Crisis Center Honours Survivors Of Violence A ceremony was recently held at the office of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Human Rights Crisis […]

#KhadijaTheFighter – A Recap Khadija Siddiqi’s case and her bravery amidst all the chaos has continued to serve as a lesson for women to hold their […]

Should Jirgas Be Given Constitutional Cover? The philosophy of an Islamic judicial system is none other than what has been told by Prophet Muhammad (peace be […]

How the Parallel Judicial System of Jirga Perpetuates Injustice For Pakistani Women Women in Pakistan continue to fall prey to jirgas, a parallel justice system held by […]

The Practice Of Female Genital Mutilation Africa and certain parts of the Arab world are not the only places where the practice of female genital mutilation […]

Patriarchy Killed Hina Shahnawaz News of honour killings, or karo-kari, is not new to Pakistan. Almost a thousand women are killed every year for allegedly bringing […]

Roundtable Discussion On Rising Mass Incarceration In Pakistan Dr. Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya, a Fulbright Commission Specialist on Mass Incarceration and a Research Director with the Institute of […]

PCSW Urges Police And Prosecution To Increase Convictions For Honour Crimes Through New Criminal Law (Amendment) (Offences In The Name Or Pretext Of Honour) Act 2016 […]

Worse Than The Romans In a torch-lit procession, she would be escorted from her family’s home to the groom’s home, where the latter would be waiting. […]

Drowned To Be Cleansed – A Tale Of The “Honourable” Women In Pakistan Pakistan, for 69 years, has experienced the role of the formal judicial law […]

“Quitting Silence” – Featuring Various Aspects Of Sexual Harassment Despite living in a world that bears a wide variety of religions, races, ethnicities and moral conduct […]

Will New Palestinian Agency Be Enough To Stop Violence Against Women? The situation of violence against women in the Palestinian territory primarily focuses on the increase in […]

Human Rights Ministry To Draft Laws To Protect Women, Children The Ministry of Human Rights is working on drafting and amending various women and children-friendly laws, […]

‘Marital Rape’ – Where Does It Stand In The Islamic Legal System? What is marital rape? What does Islam say about this? These are important questions which have been the […]

Narrow-Minded Clergy: Our Hopeless Fate Is it okay in Islam to beat your wife? Is it okay for her to do all the housework and for […]

Jirga’s Antidote Is Fair For A Functional Justice System In the absence of a fair and functional judicial system that can uphold the rule of law, […]