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Tag: Women

  • An Evening of Colors and Deep Thoughts rejecting Violence Against Women

    A Poster and Debate competition for students organized by SWO held at KATI The message was loud and clear. With their texts and textures, boys and girls from the city of lights expressed in clear terms that they reject Violence Against Women (VAW) in the society and are motivated to stop it. More than sixty…

  • SWO & UNIFEM – Celebrates 16 days of Activism Against Gender Violence

    SWO with UNIFEM Pakistan celebrates ‘16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence’ Campaign 2009 with youth of Pakistan – Thinking about Women – a little differently! These are testing times for women in Pakistan. The country ranks 106th out of 137 on the Gender-related Development Index and 66th out of 75 on the Gender Empowerment…

  • Becoming an IDP – Real life experience of two females from Swat

    Foize Nasim interviewed Saira, a 20 years old girl from Mingora, Swat at a training centre set up by PPAF at Jalala Camp. Saira has 7 sisters and 3 brothers. 3 of her sisters are married, two of whom were living at Jalala with their families. One sister, Farhat was missing with her husband, who…

  • MPA Shumaila Rana caught red-handed in Credit Card Fraud

    An MPA Shumaila Rana who has been a member of the Punjab Assembly on a chosen reserved seat for women has recently been caught red handed using a stolen credit card and making two separate purchases to the tune of Rs. 80,000 [~$1000]. The owner of the credit card Zaira Malik when she reported them…

  • Arundhati Roy at Karachi Press Club

    Arundhati Roy speaks at the Karachi Press Club on Friday at the Womens Action Forum Seminar titled Women to Reclaim Public Space

  • Women to Reclaim Public Spaces – A Seminar by WAF

    A Programme of Defiance & Resistance by the Womens Action Forum Karachi Press Club 8th May, 2009, 5:30 – 7:30pm Womens Action Forums invites you to a programme highlighting the implications of Talibanisation for women, artists, and minorities in particular, and to our country in general. The Talibans have created terror through slaughtering of people,…

  • Nestle Nesvita – Women of Strength 2009

    For the past few days womens issues have been shoved into the spot light, it initiated a huge debate sparked by the flogging video which aired across the nation and consequentially many issues arise as to how Islam treats Muslim women. With all the hype surrounding the womens issue I was intrigued by the advertising…

  • Misogyny, Patriarchy & Imperialism

    Guest blog by Abira Ashfaq posted via the Peoples’ Resistance Mailing List Pornography I reacted with horror, and resisted seeing the flogging video on youtube, only to be bombarded with it later on television. I got angry with my mother who recounted the scene with full emotionalism, saying it brought tears to her eyes. I…

  • Lahore Protest – Over 2000 against Talbanisation

    Report by Farooq Tariq Over 2000 joined a rally in Lahore against Talbanisation and terrorism. The rally was organized by Citizens of Lahore, a loose platform of different social, political and trade unions organization. The rally started from General Post Office Chouck (GPO) and ended at Charing Cross on Mall Road Lahore. Majority of the…

  • Karachi Protest against Swat Flogging Incident

  • Protests in Karachi & Lahore against the Flogging incident

    A number of protests are being organized across the country to condemn the flogging incident in SWAT where a young woman was flogged in public for being seen with another man on the street KARACHI Labor Party Pakistan & Peoples Resistance LOCATION: Press Conference and protest at Karachi Press Club TIME: 4:00pm on Saturday 4th…

  • Public flogging of a woman in SWAT – is this the Islamic way of handing out justice?

    A shocking video which is making news across the local media in Pakistan of a women being publicly lashed in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Her crime being that she was seen publicly with a man who was not her husband. I think merely watching this video makes me cringe at the skewed concept of…

  • Revolution in the Islamic World by Women

    Guest post by Farrah K Raja Recently I have been frequently coming across the word REVOLUTION over and over again. Thinking hard at what sort of revolution people might be talking about, particularly in Pakistan. There are officially two sorts of enthusiasts camped on either side of the divide, one being the Islamists and the…

  • Hashoo Group eyes BBC World Challenge 08 – Vote for Pakistan

    Hashoo Foundation‘s Project ‘Women Empowerment through Honeybee Farming‘ has been selected as one of the 12 finalists out of 700 entries for the BBC World Challenge 08 Contest. A historical moment for a Pakistani company to be highlighted on such a forum