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Human rights activist raises voice against women atrocities, discriminatio
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Anila Gulzar, a Pakistani human rights activist from the Christian minority, has condemned systemic violence and gender discrimination against women in Pakistan, highlighting issues ranging from honour killings and forced marriages to workplace harassment and weak legal enforcement.
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Pak college implements restrictions on girl students' political participat
Updated : 2 years ago IST
It's a grim reality that Pakistan ranks among the most challenging countries for women to live in, evident in the denial of social rights, discrimination, honour killings, rapes, abductions, marital abuses, forced marriages, and coerced abortions.
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UN experts lambast Pakistan for failing to stop forced conversions, marria
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather tha
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UN experts condemn forced marriages, religious conversions in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.
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Pakistan: Report highlights kidnapping, forced marriages of minorities
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
he religious minorities, mainly Hindu and Christian women and children continue to be oppressed and persecuted, at the same time facing the risk of being kidnapped, forcibly converted, raped, and coerced into a "marriage" with an older or elderly man, Gatestone Institute reported.
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Pakistan: Minor Hindu girl's "forced conversion" sparks tense debate in Si
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Pakistan, which is already struggling with the adverse political and economic situation and continues to bear the brunt of forced marriages and conversions
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Forced marriages, conversions continue in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to the data compiled by one of Christian Solidarity Worldwide's (CSW) local partners in Pakistan, the Centre for Social Justice, 202 incidents were recorded and documented between 2021-2022. Almost all of them took place within the Sindh and Punjab provinces.
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Plight of women in Pakistan deteriorates amid forced marriages, conversion
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
As women in Pakistan continue to bear the brunt of forced marriages and conversions, some have also succeeded to escape, bringing such incidents to light.
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UN: Pakistan Mission flooded with calls for protection of Christians
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Letters of protest by the organizations point to the systematic persecution of Christians, resulting in unjust punishments citing blasphemy, forced marriages of young Christian girls to older Muslim men, forced conversions in various parts of Pakistan and usurping of land and belongings of C
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Alarm raised over religious conversions of underage girls in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Noting Pakistan's previous attempts to pass legislation prohibiting forced conversions and protecting religious minorities, the UN experts deplored the lack of access to justice for victims and their families.
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Pakistan: UN experts urge action on coerced religious conversions, forced
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"We urge the Pakistan Government to take immediate steps to prevent and thoroughly investigate these acts objectively and in line with domestic legislation and international human rights commitments. Perpetrators must be held fully accountable," the experts said over the spike in the number
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Pak court makes decision in favour of man who abducted Hindu girl Chanda
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], October 21 (ANI): Karachi court made a decision in favour of a man who had abducted Chanda, a Hindu girl despite the victim's family saying that the girl was a minor, but to no avail.
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