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In the 2019 Women, Peace and Security Index, Pakistan ranked 164 out of 167 countries, only above Syria, Afghanistan &Yemen, and worst among 9 South Asian countries on access to mobile phones, financial inclusion, and discriminatory norms for women.
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In the Sustainable Development Goals Gender Index, Pakistan also did poorly, ranking 113 out of 129 countries and scoring low on female literacy as well as girls’ secondary education.
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Around 12.2 million girls, compared with 10.6 million boys, remain out of school. Less-educated girls marry young, become mothers at an early age, and often face health challenges throughout their lives.
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Child marriages also remain a serious concern for the status of women in Pakistan, and civil society organizations continue to pressure governments to bring marriage laws in line with international conventions.
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Children’s rights are trampled due to an increase in crimes against young children, both boys &girls. These range from sexual assaults to pornography and paedophiles often roam free due to institutional failures and a poor societal attitude towards crimes against children.
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Although law enforcement institutions claim that this surge in crimes is due to increased public awareness resulting in higher reporting rates, the prosecution rate of these crimes remains abysmally low.
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Just a sample (2017):
The Punjab Commission on the Status of Women’s
-746 honour crimes
-24 stove burnings
-18 cases of settlement marriages
-nearly 1000 reported cases of rape
-730 cases of gang rape
-31 cases of sexual harassment
-305 cases of physical harassment.
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the Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act has resulted in an increased number of cases filed, although again action taken remains low.
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Pakistan has come some way to addressing its problems with the status of women, and there is an ongoing cultural change, its laws and practices still present significant shortcomings for the status of women.
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Source:
Tahmina Rashid, Associate Professor of Global Studies, University of Canberra Australia.

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policyforum.net/crimes-against…

On 8 June 2016, Zeenat Rafiq, an 18-year-old girl from Lahore in Pakistan, was burnt to death by her mother for bringing shame to her family by marrying a man of her choice.

A week earlier, a 19-year-old school teacher in Punjab was tortured and burnt to death by family members for refusing an arranged marriage proposal. In the same month, the body of 16-year-old Amber was found in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, inside a car that had been set on fire.

Honour killings have long been a problem in Pakistan. Official government figures have reported around 1,000 per year, but unofficial estimates put that number at 3,000 to 4,000 each year.

Honour killings are often carried out by members of the family. HRC Pakistan reports that between 1998 and 2002, “1,235 of the 1,339 individuals accused of honour killings… were members of the victim’s family: 462 brothers, 395 husbands, 217 relatives, 103 fathers, and 53 sons”.

The incorporation of these Islamic concepts into Pakistani law has meant that murders labelled as honour killings mostly go unpunished. The principles of Qisas and Diyat allow the guardian of the honour killing victim

Source: Tayla Badings, 2017, Australian National University, Canberra

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