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25 wrz 2024 · In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan.
18 cze 2019 · The conflation of women’s rights advocacy and preserving culture predates Pakistan’s formation in 1947. Muslim political leaders vying for an independent Pakistan promoted the idea that women in a modern and Islamic state could advance society by serving as good mothers, daughters, and wives.
20 sie 2014 · In the 1980s, the Women’s Action Forum used activism to oppose General Zia’s myopic vision of Islam; today, Pakistani feminist collectives continue to protest violence against women, raise...
15 lip 2019 · The feminist movement and the women’s rights struggle that arose in the 1980s, spearheaded by Women’s Action Forum (WAF) in the urban areas and Sindhiani Tehreek in rural Sindh, were...
31 lip 2019 · Feminist readings of autobiography and memoir, and practices of oral history, have sought to analyze gender discrimination in acts of personal and cultural memory. The painful past lives of women in Pakistan that were previously ‘veiled’ were now revealed.
24 lut 2024 · Pakistan’s policymakers in the late 1980s realised this need — that outreach to women in villages across the country had to be flexible and mobile, reaching within households, rather than...
Women working in Pakistan’s hospitals say they face sexual harassment, violence and verbal abuse.
