Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan

Pakistan likes to see itself as a bastion of family values, but this is in large part an illusion — or more properly, a self-deception. Women and children are vulnerable and at risk at every point on the family spectrum. ...

By: NAZIHA SYED ALI THE Balochistan Assembly recently passed the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill, 2014. The legislation appears to generally follow the pattern of the landmark bill passed on the same issue by the Sindh Assembly in March ...

By: JAMAL SHAHID ISLAMABAD: Mystifying, but it is official. More woman workers fall victim to sexual harassment in the government sector than in the private sector. This emerged from the number of complaints received by the office of the Federal ...

Rape has risen up the national news agenda, though whether the rise will lead to a change in the attitudes that underpin the desire to commit rape is doubtful at best. Not only has rape risen in terms of public ...

By: Imran Chaudhry LAHORE: The growing cases of violence against women and underage girls, sexual abuses in particular, has sent shock waves among citizens over feeble security measures and non-implementation of laws that allows offenders to circumvent penalization. At least ...