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Imran Khan fails in ensuring opportunities for women as Pak slips further
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 31 (ANI): Despite promises by Prime Minister Imran Khan to provide equal opportunities for women, Pakistan has been ranked 153rd out of 156 countries on gender inequality, according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2021, released on
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Women in Pakistan, China continue to face discrimination, violence: Pak hu
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], March 10 (ANI): Women in Pakistan and China continue to face gender discrimination and sexual violence at home and at the workplace, said Pakistani human rights activist Anila Gulzar.
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Pakistan's fight for gender equality amid COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): As crimes against women in Pakistan continues to mount, women across the country -- like every International Womens' Day -- would be staging an 'Aurat March' demonstrating against the atrocities that women face, but this time in a more curtailed setting d
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US congressman supports 'Long Walk' organized by Sindhi minorities over en
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 14 (ANI): US congressman, Brad Sherman on Sunday supported "Long Walk' or "Long March" from New York City to Washington DC by Sindhi Foundation, covering a distance of more than 350 miles on foot to draw attention to issues like enforced disappearances, the plight o
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EU parliamentarians raise concern over violence against women in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], November 18 (ANI): Several Members of European Parliament (MEP) raised concern regarding cases of violence against women in Pakistan following a brutal motorway rape case in Lahore in September.
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Organised sex racket run by terror groups in PoK needs world's attention,
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Zurich [Switzerland], April 30 (ANI): Political activists and human rights organisations have raised concerns over organised sex racket being run by banned terror groups who are targeting local women in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
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Aurat March: Women in Pakistan protest against violence, rape, honour kill
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Mar 08 (ANI): So, they are marching. They are marching in Lahore and in many other Pakistani cities despite being threatened, abused and harassed on social media and otherwise. They are marching in Lahore holding placards with the picture of the late Asma Jehangir, an icon and
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Kashmiri women reveal about sexual exploitation in bunkers in PoK
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 27 (ANI): A leading Pakistani daily has exposed sexually exploitation of young Kashmiri women in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), who took shelter in relief camps and community bunkers, near the LoC.
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Pak Hindu women under constant threat of kidnapping, forced conversion: Me
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], June 20 (ANI): Hindu women in Pakistan are under constant threat of being kidnapped forced into religion conversion and marriage against their wishes. The fear among Hindu families is such that they have stopped sending their girls to schools out of fear that they might b
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