Women Rights
India is home to more than 220 million child brides, according to UN.
Published 22 Dec, 2024 01:17pm
Retired Justice Tahira Baloch calls for societal shift in attitudes toward women’s inheritance rights.
Updated 12 Dec, 2024 12:22pm
The number of women candidates rose from 465 in 2018 to 902 in 2024.
Updated 11 Dec, 2024 09:00am
Inclusion must be central to Pakistan’s development story.
Updated 10 Dec, 2024 01:52pm
Figures like Bushra bibi, with her Sufi persuasion, complicate politics — shrine or secular — by unsettling male dominance.
Published 06 Dec, 2024 01:45pm
“This is a big shock for us. Psychologically, we are shaken,” a 28-year-old midwifery teacher says.
Updated 04 Dec, 2024 09:42am
Meetings in London centre on leveraging digital infrastructure, expanding critical interventions aimed at improving women's lives.
Updated 30 Nov, 2024 10:51am
The precarious state of the health of women in Pakistan is evident throughout their life course.
Updated 29 Nov, 2024 09:24am
“How can we remain indifferent to protecting the rights of women?” Jaffar Khan Mandokhel asks.
Updated 27 Nov, 2024 10:53am
Women in Kohistan struggle with a lack of resources, inadequate healthcare, and ineffective schooling despite making significant contributions to the agricultural community.
Published 04 Nov, 2024 07:11am
With the dome of the US Capitol as the backdrop, speakers at Freedom Plaza whip up support for 60-year-old Harris.
Published 03 Nov, 2024 01:14pm
'No Woman’s Land' highlights everyday lives of Afghan women under Taliban rule.
Published 28 Oct, 2024 02:13pm
Education activists and officials tell Dawn.com the main reasons behind the dismal state of literacy among girls in the northern KP region.
Updated 27 Sep, 2024 10:21pm
Former college principal is already in police custody for suspected graft.
Updated 16 Sep, 2024 10:10am
An increasingly imaginary "international community" and the UN have only issued a few feeble and robotic warnings.
Updated 11 Sep, 2024 09:40am
Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi's iddat case is an example of how men can use religious laws for personal and political vendettas.
Published 04 Sep, 2024 12:00pm
NAWABSHAH: It is the responsibility of every institution to create a respectful environment for women.
Published 02 Sep, 2024 07:46am
The case has become a culmination of centuries of societal inequality and control exerted against women in the subcontinent.
Published 21 Aug, 2024 11:07am
PML-N's Idrees says objection "inappropriate"; Sherry Rehman assails remarks as "regrettable and hindrance to gender equality".
Updated 16 Aug, 2024 09:11pm
45 underage girls have become wives since the last monsoon — 15 of them in May and June this year.
Updated 16 Aug, 2024 02:06pm
Talks focus on private sector, narcotics control; Taliban envoy stresses need for constructive engagement with West.
Updated 02 Jul, 2024 01:16pm
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah says we must take pro-inclusivity structural interventions.
Updated 30 Jun, 2024 09:31am
The agenda includes “topics such as aid for Afghanistan and creating opportunities for investors".
Published 16 Jun, 2024 04:34pm
UN mission head says UNAMA is also engaging with all Afghans to help them achieve a broad-based governance system that includes everybody.
Published 14 Jun, 2024 07:53am
Immigration and Passport official says requisite changes are required in the policy/rules to offer such option to petitioner for passport.
Updated 11 Jun, 2024 02:18pm
“Welfare of the minor remains the primary consideration for determining his or her custody,” Justice Raheel Kamran Sheikh observes.
Updated 09 Jun, 2024 01:06pm
About 26.3pc of married Pakistani women want to prevent pregnancy but lack access to family planning methods.
Updated 13 May, 2024 10:44am
Seema's battle with fistula unveils the tragedy of early marriage, urging society to confront the intertwined dangers of child marriage and women's health crises.
Published 03 May, 2024 11:35am
Timargara Govt Postgraduate College directs girl students not to “take part in political gatherings, birthday parties and other ECAs”.
Published 02 May, 2024 07:51am
Judoka Friba Rezayee feels whatever she did to support women’s rights has been undone by International Olympic Committee.
Updated 16 Apr, 2024 10:36am
