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Pakistani Women Protest Outside the UNHRC Against Gender-related Violence

Paki­sta­ni Wome­n’s Human Rights Orga­ni­sa­tion orga­ni­zed a silent pro­te­st outsi­de the UNHRC in Gene­va on Sep­tem­ber 21, again­st gen­der-rela­ted vio­len­ce and honour kil­ling in Paki­stan.

The women displayed ban­ners that said “Paki­stan Free Your Daughters”, “The­re is no Honour in Kil­ling” and “Stop Abu­sing Women”. Spea­king to the media, one of the pro­te­stors, Ali­sha Khan, sta­ted that she was here to pro­te­st to remind the world that Paki­sta­ni women, in their dai­ly lives, were still faced with dome­stic vio­len­ce and honour kil­ling. She added that despi­te inter­na­tio­nal media atten­tion to some of the­se inci­den­ts of vio­len­ce, things were not chan­ging in Paki­stan. She held the gro­wing influen­ce of Isla­mic cle­rics in Paki­sta­n’s poli­cy making as one of the main rea­sons for its socie­ty beco­ming so regres­si­ve. In this con­nec­tion, she gave the exam­ple of the human rights bill that was intro­du­ced in the Pun­jab Assem­bly not being imple­men­ted, becau­se ot the objec­tion of fun­da­men­ta­li­st lea­ders, who clai­med that such a bill would be again­st the Sha­ria.

Tarek Fateh, who was also pre­sent at the venue of the pro­te­st, said that the­se women who stood silen­tly to pro­te­st again­st this oppres­sion, very aptly sym­bo­li­zed the rea­li­ty of Paki­sta­ni women being voi­ce­less. He infor­med that eve­ry year near­ly 5000 women were kil­led by their fathers, husbands or bro­thers in inci­den­ts of honour kil­ling. Cal­ling Paki­stan a pariah Sta­te, he said that the coun­try prac­ti­ced the wor­st form of Isla­mic fasci­sm, and the pre­sent con­di­tion of women and the sup­port by the Paki­sta­ni Sta­te to ter­ro­ri­sm, was a result of this.

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