Domestic abuse on July 24, 2019Dear daughters keep screaming, speak up and speak out – Stay safe. Stay strong. Men and women both may be suffering in a relationship (because who said women who also happen to be humans cannot be demanding difficult, lack understanding, manipulative etc etc) also human beings. But this by no means is an excuse for […]
Silence on violence-some impressions on July 13, 2019The famineof freedom from fears is spotted in varying degrees on the map of the current world where violence causes more than 1.6 million deaths globally every year. World Health Organization estimated that the 20th century was one of the most violent periods in human history. An estimated 191 million people lost their lives directly […]
Dear men, be the champions of women emancipations on June 2, 2019Dedicated to a brave man Mirza Ali, a mountaineer, a campaigner to encourage women in outdoor sports and brother of Samina Baig, the first and only Pakistani woman to climb Everest. We are living in a speedily changing world that appears, more receptive towards diversity and egalitarianism. The prejudiced mental-conditioning, however, is not going away […]
Workplace and women on May 19, 2019In a world where 1 in 5 women under the age of 50 have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner/spouse in the past 12 months; the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with 17 transformative goals , 169 targets and 230 indicators ; adopted by the 193 countries of the UN General Assembly,are […]
Women: Nothing about us without us on April 28, 2019The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power. Simone de Beauvoir Achieving equality among all sexes and gender identities, elimination of all forms of hierarchy and all structures of supremacy is […]
Entrepreneurship and Pakistani women on April 8, 2019Does Entrepreneurship whether social or commercial need women? The answer is yes because poverty has a woman’s face and mostly women are often not “allowed growing” due to their predetermined role in care economy and unpaid work. Most of the times women are not even empowered enough to even think of their choices and if […]
Dowry violence and Pakistan on December 30, 2018Dowry violence is one of the many manifestations of patriarchal culture that is comfortably integrated in our routine lives. Different structures in development practice and governance as well as the society at large have cleverly assigned social sanction and legal safeguard to it. This custom is not only lethal to the self-esteem, emotional and physical […]
Two Decembers, 1971 and 2014 on December 21, 2018For any sincere, sensitive and simple person in Pakistan, life usually remains coarse in all months of the calendar, but the month of December becomes exceptionally condescending owing to two national tragedies. On December 16, 2014 more than 100 of Pakistani kids went to the Army Public School Peshawar and never came back. That massacre […]
Being Feminist on December 1, 2018The 16 days against Gender Based Violence, provide or are at least meant to offer an opportunity to many women who are definitely survivors and no longer victims, to share their stories and scoops too. The pain of untold stories is nerve-wracking. Realistically speaking it is not workable for too honest, non-diplomatic human rights activists […]
Ending inequality in Pakistan — Mr PM on November 26, 2018Most of the world is unequal in terms of income and opportunities even though the share of the poor has fallen since 2001 by nearly half, to 15 percent, and those in the middle-income bracket have nearly doubled (from 7 to 13 percent) their global presence. There is almost a consensus among researchers, practitioners and […]