Tag: Underage marriages
Rights Watch | 15th July 2022
Mobina Town police on Thursday registered a case under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act against a man accused of murdering his wife and boiling her body in a pot in Karachi's Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Wednesday.
‘Ending early marriages can improve women’s health’
At a seminar on women's reproductive rights at the Institute of Public Health, speakers stressed the need to end early child marriages to ensure healthy babies are born to healthy mothers.
Rights Watch | 28th March 2022
The Kolhi community on Sunday blocked the Khipro-Umerkot highway in protest against the abduction of Gori Kolhi and the Khai police’s refusal to register an FIR. This is the fourth such incident of the kidnapping of Hindu women and girls in the past eight days
Rights Watch | 4th February 2022
Justice Amir Farooq of the IHC has directed the Federal Govt to enact legislature setting the minimum marriageable age for girls. For more human rights news, keep reading.
Child Marriages: Judicial discretion or matter of legislation?
Jun 21, 2020: In Pakistan, the definition of a child differs, across multiple laws in each of the four provinces. Under labour laws, a child is an individual below the age of 14 years, while under domestic labour laws, the age cap is 15 ...
