women’s rights

Validity of Khula in Islam The topic of this discussion has been contested to a great extent – despite not being one of the most controversial […]

Sindh Commission on Status of Women Updates The Women Action Forum has demanded activation of the Sindh Commission on Status of Women without further delay, as […]

Critical Analysis Of The Anti Rape And Anti Honor Killing Laws In Pakistan Introduction Women in Pakistan have long been oppressed and denied justice. Even the […]

Will Khadija’s Case Finally Herald Justice For Women Of The Country? The dark side of  lawyers’ cartel in Pakistan has been exposed in the case of […]

Violence in Pakistan: A Gendered Perspective Context: Pakistan has been ranked as the third most dangerous place in the world for women.[1] Gender based violence (GBV) […]

Extended Family System In Pakistani Society A past drawn from the Indian subcontinent has affected our present mindsets and lifestyles in incalculable ways. Merging of customs […]

Comparison of Provincial Legislation in 2016 – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa This article is a continuation of my previous article in which I compared legislation by different provincial […]

The Haq In Mahr We are no strangers to the fact that before the advent of Islam, barring the scarce women from the upper class, the […]

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 […]

This Women’ Day Let’s Advocate Change In The Patriarchal Mindset  Every year on the 8th of March the women of the world come together to commemorate […]

Suffragette – Movie Review My first memory of hearing the term ‘suffragette’ was when as a young child, I watched Mary Poppins and listened to the […]

The Fairer Sex In The Legal Profession: Tracing Women’s Place In A Man’s World – A critical account of lessons learnt from the Women in Law Dialogue […]

Important UK Legislation Which Still Has Relevance Today ‘‘Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must […]

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 […]

Rising Again Pakistan signed, ratified and adopted the UN Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1996. Even with this international […]

Other Than The Rapist, Who Else Is Responsible For Rape? Women have always been degraded, humiliated and disrespected in almost every relation during their entire life […]