Women in Pakistan have constitutional protections for equality and non-discrimination according to the 1973 Constitution. However, women still face significant challenges, including domestic violence. In 2013, Pakistan passed the Domestic Violence Prevention and Protection Bill to define and punish domestic violence. Prior laws were also amended, such as removing rape from the Hudood Ordinances and trying it as a criminal offense. Additionally, the National Commission on the Status of Women was established in 2000 to promote women's rights and development. Nonetheless, crimes targeting women like honor killings, acid attacks, and abductions still occur.
Minorities in Pakistan are in trouble. They face double discrimination each day. There is need to eradicate all of these problems so that every one can live equally.
Minorities in Pakistan are in trouble. They face double discrimination each day. There is need to eradicate all of these problems so that every one can live equally.
Why women empowerment is essential for development what is the role of women is necessary for social, economical and political establishment of Pakistan or for development.
Child Rights, UN CRC & Child Protection in PakistanSaleem Bokhari
This training module is part of other training modules on child protection. Other modules include Basics of child protection in Pakistan, identification of child abuse and neglect in Pakistan, Forensic interviewing with children in Pakistan, Child Development, Positive parenting and parenting patterns in Pakistan, Child Protection and Child Care in Pakistan, Alternative Child Care Management in Pakistan and Child Discipline etc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saleem-bokhari-57236b118/
Saleem Bokhari Trainer, Multi-Disciplinary Child Protection (Health Education Officer, Lahore, Pakistan)
Presentation about human rights in Pakistan and what is the situation of human rights in Pakistan. Classification of Human rights,evolution of human rights etc are the topics of this ppt.
Un structure of Human Rights and Gender EqualitySykat Mondal
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world. Moreover, human rights are both inspirational and practical. Human rights principles hold up the vision of a free. Human rights also empower people with a framework for action when those minimum standards are not met, for people still have human rights even if the laws or those in power do not recognize or protect them. Because of this UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) was to set a standard of rights for all people everywhere. Women is also receiving there fictitious rights. All people have the same rights and all rights are equally important. The UDHR clearly says that girls and women and boys and men have the same rights.
Why women empowerment is essential for development what is the role of women is necessary for social, economical and political establishment of Pakistan or for development.
Child Rights, UN CRC & Child Protection in PakistanSaleem Bokhari
This training module is part of other training modules on child protection. Other modules include Basics of child protection in Pakistan, identification of child abuse and neglect in Pakistan, Forensic interviewing with children in Pakistan, Child Development, Positive parenting and parenting patterns in Pakistan, Child Protection and Child Care in Pakistan, Alternative Child Care Management in Pakistan and Child Discipline etc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saleem-bokhari-57236b118/
Saleem Bokhari Trainer, Multi-Disciplinary Child Protection (Health Education Officer, Lahore, Pakistan)
Presentation about human rights in Pakistan and what is the situation of human rights in Pakistan. Classification of Human rights,evolution of human rights etc are the topics of this ppt.
Un structure of Human Rights and Gender EqualitySykat Mondal
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world. Moreover, human rights are both inspirational and practical. Human rights principles hold up the vision of a free. Human rights also empower people with a framework for action when those minimum standards are not met, for people still have human rights even if the laws or those in power do not recognize or protect them. Because of this UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) was to set a standard of rights for all people everywhere. Women is also receiving there fictitious rights. All people have the same rights and all rights are equally important. The UDHR clearly says that girls and women and boys and men have the same rights.
Victim Protection in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of the Existing Laws in Relation ...bhagya913
An Analysis of the existing laws on victim protection in relation to the victims of offences of gender based violence in Sri Lanka, along with the existing international standards.
This slide is about the violence against refugee women and development of law over the period of time in relation to the refugee women. It also talks about the protection of refugees in India through the International Obligations, Constitutional provisions and the case laws.
Right to equality
Right to freedom
Right against exploitation
Right to freedom of religion
Cultural and educational rights
Right to constitutional remedies
Right to property (removed from fundamental rights to legal rights)
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2. CONSTITUTIONAL
PROTECTIONS
• CONSTITUTION (1973): http://www.parliament.am/library/sahmanadrutyunner/pakistan.pdf
• Article 9: Security of person - No person shall be deprived of live or liberty saves in
accordance with law.
• Article 25: Equality of Citizens
• (1) All citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law.
• (2) There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex
• (3) Nothing in this Article shall prevent the State from making any special provision
for the protection of women and children
• Article 34: Full Participation of Women in National Life - Steps shall be taken to ensure
the participation of women in all spheres of national life
3. PAKISTAN PENAL CODE, 1860
• 2010 Amendment: http://www.ncsw.gov.pk/prod_images/
Section-509-amendments.pdf
• CHAPTER XX-A : Of Offences [sic] Against Women
• 498A: Prohibition of depriving women from inheriting
property
• 498B: Prohibition of forced marriage
• 498C: Prohibition of marriage with the Holy Quran
4. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (PREVENTION
& PROTECTION BILL, 2013+
• Introduced by Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar
• Passed unanimously by Upper House of
Federal Parliament
• Success after 5 year collaborate struggle by
Aurat Foundation, activists, jurists, lawyers,
and women legislators
• Defines Domestic Violence
• Punishments:
• Beating of women or children: minimum
six months imprisonment + a fine of at
least Rs.100,000 ($1,100)
• +http://cedawsouthasia.org/2423/domestic-violence-act-passed-by-sindh-assembly-in-
pakistan
5. Women’s Protection Bill
• Passed November 15, 2006
• Amends highly-criticized Hudood Ordinance (governing rape & adult)
• Entails:
• Rape now included in Pakistan Penal Code
• Criminal Law not Sharia Law
• Requires formal accusation in court - not just suspicion of Police
• Change: Rape tried in criminal court with burden of forensic & circumstantial
evidence
• Controversy: Violation of Articles 2a and 227 of Constitution: “Islam will be the state
religion” and “No laws will be passed which are repugnant to the Quran and
sunnah.”
6. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE
STATUS OF WOMEN-PAKISTAN
• Statutory Body, est. July 2000
• Purpose: Examine policies, programs and
other measures taken by the Government for
women’s development and gender equality;
Review laws, rules and regulations affecting
the status of women; Monitor mechanisms
and institutional procedures for redress of
violations of women’s rights and individual
grievances; Encourage and sponsor
research to generate information, analysis and
studies relating to women and gender
issues; Develop and maintain interaction and
dialogue with NGOs, experts and individuals
in society at the national, regional and
international level; and other function assigned
to it by the Federal Government
• Laws Related to Activities/Efforts of
NCSW:
• Law Committee of NCSW
• http://www.ncsw.gov.pkLawReviewCommittee.php
• NCWS’s Petition Against Jirga Holdings
• Jirga: a grand council or grand assembly used to resolve political
conflicts or other national problems
• Women Specific Laws:
• http://www.ncsw.gov.pk/Pro-Women-Laws.php
8. Afraid and Alone: Violence Against Women in Pakistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tclrkxI8rO4
9. SOURCES:
• CEDAW: Domestic Violence Act passed by Sindh Assembly in Pakistn. http://
cedawsouthasia.org/2423/domestic-violence-act-passed-by-sindh-assembly-in-pakistan
• Gender Concerns International. Pakistan’s Senate Passed a Bill that Makes Violence
Against Women an Offence. http://www.genderconcerns.org/article.php?
id_nr=3112&id=Pakistan's%20Senate%20Passed%20a%20Bill%20that%20Makes
%20Violence%20Against%20Women%20an%20Offence
• Pakistan Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860): http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/legislation/1860/
actXLVof1860.html
• Pakistani Women’s Human Rights Organization: http://www.pakistaniwomen.org/index.html
• The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. http://www.parliament.am/library/
sahmanadrutyunner/pakistan.pdf
