Tag: Misogyny
Rights Watch | 30th April 2021
Nowshera police on Thursday arrested Mufti Sardar Ali Haqqani for delivering a 'provocative' speech against women educators, doctors and nurses in a video that went viral on social media. He was granted bail by a judicial magistrate on submitting two surety bonds. For more news on human rights, keep reading.
Rights Watch | 15th March 2021
Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony Noor-ul-Haq Qadri announces probe into allegedly blasphemous slogans raised at Aurat March and Aurat Azadi March, and registering cases against 'culprits'. Persons involved in doctoring banners and flags at the March to also be investigated. For more human rights news, keep reading.
Rights Watch | 9th February 2021
Warah elders in Bajaur roll back their decision to bar women from visiting World Bank centers to collect monthly cash grants after government intervention. The Supreme Court orders KP government to begin restoration of a vandalised Hindu temple in Karak. he Journalists Defence Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council (JDCPBC) sets up cell to provide free legal aid to journalists.
Rights Watch | 3rd February 2021
Case lodged against four in Lahore, including husband and mother-in-law, for beating and strangling to death a woman for not siring a son. Saddar police arrest a man for repeatedly raping his 16-year-old daughter for the past three months in their home in Chak 439 GB, Faisalabad. Supreme Court moved to prompt government to formally request India to launch inquiry into mass-death of 11 Pakistani Hindus in Jodhpur.
Rights Watch | 9th October 2020
10 y/o boy found murdered after being subjected to sodomy, torture in Rahim Yar Khan; minor boy raped by male domestic worker in Bahawalpur; 8 y/o girl raped while suspects filmed the incident in Chiniot; 10 y/o Dadu girl raped and tossed on roadside by an influential.