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?
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
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
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
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
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
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’s Day Let’s Advocate Change In The Patriarchal Mindset
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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 […]
Polygamy: A Right No More
Polygamy: A Right No More Historically, Arabs were known to take on an unlimited number of wives, a right given to them by society. Polygamy is […]
Are Women’s Rights More Theoretical Than They Are As An Applicable Concept In Everyday Life?
Are Women’s Rights More Theoretical Than They Are As An Applicable Concept In Everyday Life? The concept of ‘women’s rights’ works to finish off the exclusion […]