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 […]
Harassment Of Women At Workplace And Beyond
Harassment Of Women At Workplace And Beyond Women in Pakistan often feel socially insecure and uncomfortable outside the privacy of their homes. This is mainly due […]
Women In Islam
Women In Islam Quite a controversial topic, isn’t it? It is bound to give rise to a difference of opinions when 1.6 billion Muslims, a minority […]
Female Empowerment
Female Empowerment “No nation can rise to the heights of glory until your women are side by side with you.” – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Women empowerment […]
Disinheriting Women
Disinheriting Women Inheritance in legal terms is the property received from an ancestor under the laws of inheritance or property that a person receives by bequest […]