Violence Against Women: Pakistan's position
Mohammed AsifSouth Asia is among the worst cases in the world with respect to violence against women. Pakistan is not an exception, too.
In Pakistan, women live under the plethora of feudal, tribal, Islamic and British laws. These laws present unique, complex and often a fair and unfair treatment to women. The country is bound by international conventions, CEDAW for example, to undertake certain measures for women’s rights. It has laws in favor of women too. But not every law and its implementation mechanism is sensitive towards women. In this chaos, a Pakistani woman’s problems are complex, varied and local in nature and they cannot be always explained by blanket causes or solved through typical solutions.
In broader terms, women are victims of social, political and economic biases in Pakistan. As the result of them, investment on them in social, political and economic spheres of domestic and national fronts is marginal understandably. Consequentially, they become victims of the same vicious circle. They are victims of domestic violence, violent customary practices, insult, innuendoes, rape, harassment and trafficking. They are treated as ‘half humans’ and
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