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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.
Women working in Pakistan’s hospitals say they face sexual harassment, violence and verbal abuse.
In Pakistan, women coming together to rally against patriarchy and sexual harassment became a flashpoint across cities in what has become an annual event and a test of wills between some ...
9 lut 2024 · Young feminists face death, rape and acid throwing threats, while they exercise their constitutional right to assembly and right to freedom of speech. Raising a slogan has troubled and distressed the patriarchal mindset in Pakistan. The social fabric, structure, and practices are against women.
15 mar 2018 · It's been three decades since members of the Women's Action Forum were beaten on the streets for protesting the Islamization laws of dictator General Zia in the early 1980s.
Second phase: 1980s. The end of 1970s heralded a new wave of political Islamisation in many Muslim majority countries. In Pakistan, the military dictatorial regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq gained power and initiated the Islamisation of Pakistan.
