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	Status of women in Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pakistan is the first Muslim country to elect a woman (Benazir Bhutto) as a Head of Government.
		Among these are the rising numbers of women in well-paid professional occupations, increased activism by feminist groups, and a recent rapid reduction in the number of children per woman.
		Women in Pakistan have progressed in various fields of life such as politics, education, economy, services, health and many more.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Status_of_women_in_Pakistan (295 words)

	The situation of women in Pakistan
		Gender relations in Pakistan rest on two basic perceptions: that women are subordinate to men, and that a man's honor resides in the actions of the women of his family.
		Four important challenges confronted women in Pakistan in the early 1990s: increasing practical literacy, gaining access to employment opportunities at all levels in the economy, promoting change in the perception of women's roles and status, and gaining a public voice both within and outside of the political process.
		The women in the forum, most of whom came from elite families, perceived that many of the laws proposed by the Zia government were discriminatory and would compromise their civil status.
	www.islamfortoday.com /pakistanwomen.htm (2409 words)

	Pakistan: Honour killings of women and girls - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Women are seen to embody the honour of the men to whom they 'belong', as such they must guard their virginity and chastity.
		For example, women recovered after alleged abductions and women whose marriage to men of their choice was challenged by their fathers are usually placed in the custody of state-run institutions until the courts have decided the issue -- and are treated by the court as "crime property".
		Marriages contracted by women against the wishes of their fathers are perceived by many courts to impact on the father's honour and to justify a man losing control and killing the offender.
	www.web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/index/ASA330181999 (7191 words)

	Urdu Front Page \| BBC World Service
		Pakistan is an Islamic country and the respect given to women by Islam was never in practise before.
		Pakistan's rural areas are wild and semi autonomous areas where govt officials do what the lord of the area want them to do.
		The abuse of women to this extent is of course not a common trend, but there is a widespread women’s abuse in one or another form in that country.
	www.bbc.co.uk /urdu/forum/020705_forum_rape.shtml (6517 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Op-Ed: Opportunities & Challenges for Women (by Requia Altaf Mughal)
		Exclusion in society.unseen socioeconomic development and the impact of tribal, feudal and capitalist social practices have led to diversity in the status of women across classes, region and the rural and urban divide.
		The benefits of education for girls and women are well-documented, yet in developing countries, like Pakistan girls are two-thirds of the 130 million who are not attending school.Education also leads to the postponement of child birth, and have fewer and healthier children.
		The Government of Pakistan is firmly committed to improving the status of women in the country.
	pakistantimes.net /2003/11/27/guest2.htm (897 words)

	Health - Pakistan - ADB.org
		This component will focus on women's reproductive and other health needs, including pre- and postnatal care, control of sexually transmitted diseases, family planning, and control of urinary and reproductive tract infections, as well as female nutrition, and the prevention and treatment of women's abuse, tuberculosis, pneumonia and diarrhoeal diseases.
		Women, girls and infants most often die of common communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, diarrhea, pneumonia and tetanus, which could have been easily prevented and treated.
		Underlying factors here are the lack of awareness of, and attention to, women's health needs; women's lower education and social status; and social constraints on women and girls, including the practice of seclusion.
	www.adb.org /gender/practices/health/pakistan001.asp (1350 words)

	PAKISTAN: Women Face Their Own Crisis (Press Release, October 1999)
		"Women in Pakistan face spiraling rates of gender-based violence, a legal framework that is deeply biased against women, and a law enforcement system that retraumatizes female victims instead of facilitating justice," she added.
		Women's low social status and a long established pattern of active suppression of women's rights by successive governments has contributed to the escalation in violence.
		Women's rights advocacy organizations increasingly had been subjected to a range of intimidatory tactics, including stepped up government surveillance and threats that their organizations would be banned.
	www.hrw.org /press/1999/oct/pakpr.htm (752 words)

	Pakistan Facts - Pakistan: Majority of Jailed Women are Rape Victims
		The National Commission on the Status of Women in Pakistan recently issued a report on the Hudood Ordinances, stating that as many as 88 percent of female prisoners are serving time for violating the 1977 Zina Ordinance, which makes fornication a crime and adultery a state offence.
		Women's rights, human rights groups, and national commissions are calling for repeal of the Hudood Ordinances (Search).
		As many as 88 per cent of women prisoners in the country are languishing in jails as a result of ambiguities in the Zina Ordinance.
	www.pakistan-facts.com /article.php?story=20031024122134785 (481 words)

	Yet Another Women's Commission
		September 5, 2003 – (The Daily Times, Editorial – Pakistan) The National Commission on the Status of Women under the chairmanship of Justice Majida Rizvi has once again recommended that the Hudood Law be repealed as it degraded women, deprived them of their full rights and made the law of evidence iniquitous.
		The Commission was given the task of improving the status of women in Pakistan in May 2002.
		The Supreme Court is on record as saying that 95 per cent of the cases thus brought against women are finally decided in their favour but the movement of the case from the lower courts to the Supreme Court takes years during which the accused woman suffers.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Pakistan/newsarchive03/commission.html (917 words)

	The status of women - Governance - The British Council Pakistan
		Working to improve the status of women in Pakistan is one of the four priority areas of governance work that the British Council undertakes in Pakistan.
		Aimed at challenging preconceptions about women's role in Pakistani society, the British Council is currently working with the Indus Valley School of Art, Karachi to develop a series of posters demonstrating the wide range of professions in which women successfully work in Pakistan.
		Women become victims of these conflicts as members of the community, as family members and as victims of specific violence.
	www.britishcouncil.org.pk /governance/pakswom.htm (674 words)

	Women labour — unrealized potential -DAWN - Business; June 27, 2005
		Although women in large-scale industries are better off than their counterparts doing similar tasks in small workshops, in factories or at home.
		As a result of the low labour absorptive capacity of the modern sector, women in the urban areas are increasingly being relegated to the ranks of contract labour where earnings are significantly lower than in regular employment or to the lowest ranks of the service sector.
		Women workers are usually employed in the lowest tiers of the services sector in poorly paid, manual jobs mainly as domestic servants.
	www.dawn.com /2005/06/27/ebr11.htm (798 words)

	CIJS Paper : How the status of Pakistani women in their homeland affects their ability to gain entry into Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With regard to women, the decision of the Federal Court in Annan, not only allowed the refugee claim of a woman fleeing genital mutilation, but also recognized that the status of women in their countries of origin is a vital component of a woman's refugee claim.
		Women in urban areas and from the middle and upper classes often have more freedom to undertake paid work and seek higher education than their rural and poorer sisters.
		Women have been stabbed, shot, burned, strangled and hacked to death for "shaming their families," and the rate at which this is occurring is increasing.
	www.cijs.ca /immig01.html (4701 words)

	Women, Peace and Security News: Pakistan
		Specifically, the SWO was established for the welfare and betterment of neglected women in Pakistan deprived of their basic constitutional rights, and to provide women with the basic necessities of life like education, health and protection.
		SWO applies all its funds for the welfare and protection of women, and works for the safety and protection of innocent women who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment and those women who have deserted from their houses.
		Hundreds of women fall victim to so-called "honor killing" by male relatives every year in deeply conservative, rural Pakistan for marrying without their families' consent, thereby being deemed to have brought disgrace on their family.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Pakistan/news.html (4312 words)

	Country Assistance Plans - Pakistan - ADB.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The status of women in Pakistan, as evidenced from persistent gender disparities, remains dismal.
		In addition, emerging areas such as the legal status of women, violence against women and the gender dimensions of poverty will be assessed and strategic areas for ADB intervention identified.
		A number of proposed projects, including the Nonformal Education for Rural Women Project programmed for 2000, the Reproductive Health Project programmed for 2001, and the Primary School Quality Improvement Project programmed for 2001 will all directly focus on improving the status of women in Pakistan.
	www.asiandevbank.org /Documents/CAPs/PAK/0305.asp (430 words)

	Pakistan HQ : Women In Pakistan
		Pakistan, the second largest South Asian country after India and one of the majoractors in the politics of the Muslim world.
		This paper seeks to examine the position and status of women in Bangladesh inrelation to the interplay of religion and politics.
		Pakistan HQ excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
	pakistanhq.com /womeninpakistan (897 words)

	National Commission on the Status of Women - Pakistan - Equal Employment Opportunities
		The Government established a National Commission on the Status of Women in 2000.
		The National Commission on the Status of Women Ordinance 2000 established the Commission and set out its procedures.
		The majority of members shall be women, including one member from each Province, Azad, Jammu and Kashmir, Northern Areas and at least one member from the minorities (Art.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/pakistan/i_ncsw.htm (791 words)

	Status of Women Indicators, Infant Mortality Rate and Birth Rate: A study of High Crude Birth Rate Districts of Pakistan
		Pakistan, with a population of 139 million in 2000, is the seventh most populous country in the world.
		Pakistan was amongst the pioneering countries to launch a family planning program in the public sector forty years ago (1960s) but unlike many other less developed countries having success stones in family planning, it has not yet achieved widespread acceleration of adoption of family planning measures.
		The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of women work participation, female age at marriage, female literacy rate, sex ratio and infant mortality rate on high crude birth rate districts of Pakistan by using data from 1998 population census.
	ideas.repec.org /a/dse/indecr/v37y2002i1p117-134.html (442 words)

	WLUML: News and Views
		This is sheer usurping of the basic and constitutional rights of women, and the Government should deal with it with an iron hand, the statement said.
		Obscenity lies in the minds of those who see women as a commodity for their pleasure, and not as an equal individual, the statement said.
		It was stated that the said marathon was a sport participated by women and girls from different walks of life as an exercise of their basic right and by no definition it could be termed as obscenity.
	www.wluml.org /english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[157]=x-157-187546 (504 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Indicators on the Status of Women in Pakistan,
		Though this monograph is published in 1998 the data collection and analysis is of 1995, which in effect does not incorporate the indicators or data of the latest census.
		Keeping in mind the patriarchal mindset and women's lack of decision making power this monograph develops a framework for a more comprehensive picture of women's status in Pakistani society.
	www.un.org.pk /library/Women_Biblio/wbabs005.htm (178 words)

	Pakistan Women
		The status of women in Pakistan and the womens movement in Pakistan.
		The All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA) is a non-profit and non-political...
		The Pakistan Women Lawyers Association (PAWLA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, which is working essentially as a pressure group for the...
	www.pakservice.com /Pakistan/pakistan_women.htm (132 words)

	The Veil of Equality and Justice
		If he wishes to marry other women, all he has to do is to divorce one of them and to replace her with another.
		This is the true status of women according to Muhammad and to Islam.
		Women in general (as Muhammad declared) are the majority of the people in hell on the day of judgment.
	answering-islam.org /BehindVeil/btv3.html (13277 words)

	NCSW - National Commision on the Status of Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dignity and the status of women and men as equal citizens of Pakistan is a moral imperative, constitutional obligation and a guiding principle of an egalitarian and a progressive society.
		National Commission on the Status of Women endeavors, in partnership with civil society and the government, to overcome obstacles to gender equality.
		The Commission would promote initiatives for empowerment of women and ensure their fundamental human rights in order to facilitate an environment in which women realize their full potential and participate equally with men to create and sustain a social order envisaged by the enlightened values enshrined in Islam.
	www.ncsw.gov.pk (211 words)

	Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.
		RAWA condemns terrorist attack to its personnel in Pakistan
		Self-Immolation Of Women On The Rise In Western Provinces
	www.rawa.org (935 words)

	Ministry of Women's Development Pakistan- Equal Employment Opportunities
		Whilst the Ministry of Women's Development promotes gender equality and upholds the status of women in Pakistan at the Federal level, Women's Development Departments (WDD) also exist at the local government level.
		Pakistan's representation in international organizations dealing with problems of women in bilateral contacts with other countries.
		Ensuring equality of opportunity in education and employment and fuller participation of women in all spheres of national organizations in the field of social welfare.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/edu/inst/pakmwd.htm (243 words)

	MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: Pakistan's National Commission on the Status of Women has ...
		Pakistan's National Commission on the Status of Women has condemned the district government in Haripur, Pakistan for banning the hiring of female telephone
		(MENAFN) Pakistan's National Commission on the Status of Women has condemned the district government in Haripur, Pakistan for banning the hiring of female telephone operators at Public Call Offices, Gulf News reported.
		All the government policies have to be in line with principles of policies explicitly enshrined in the Constitution of Pakistan, which requires the full participation of women in national life [according to Article 34] and the promotion of the social and economic well being of the people [Article 38], PNCSW's research officer said.
	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=88063 (196 words)

	Find in a Library: Women's status and fertility in Pakistan : recent evidence.
		Find in a Library: Women's status and fertility in Pakistan : recent evidence.
		Women's status and fertility in Pakistan : recent evidence.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/28c5c450cd42cb7ca19afeb4da09e526.html (65 words)

	CRIME OR CUSTOM?
		The women's rights division of Human Rights Watch gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the many individuals, government officials, and institutions in Pakistan who were instrumental in our efforts to investigate the barriers to justice faced by women victims of violence in Pakistan.
		Our work would not have been possible without the courageous women who were willing to speak to us of their experiences in seeking redress for abuse and assault through the criminal justice system in Pakistan.
		The women's rights division of Human Rights Watch gratefully acknowledges the support of the Sandler Family Supporting Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Moriah Fund, and the Shaler Adams Foundation.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/pakistan (327 words)

	A synthesis report of the Near East Region - Women, agriculture and rural development -
		This report was prepared under the auspices of FAO's Programme of Assistance in Support of Rural Women in Preparation for the Fourth World Conference on Women, and the Regional Plan of Action for Women in Agriculture in the Near East (RPAWANE 2000).
		The report follows the Guidelines prepared by FAO for reporting on the status of women within the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors, to ensure that the situation of rural women is adequately addressed in policy and decision-making debates.
		The role of women in crop, livestock, fisheries and agroforestry
	www.fao.org /docrep/x0176e/x0176e00.htm (384 words)

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