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Pakistan: How poverty and exploitation drive child marriages

Pakistan: How poverty and exploitation drive child marriages dw.com 3/11/2021 S. Khan (Islamabad) Rights activists and medical experts have urged the government to take concrete actions to prevent underage marriages. Activists say poverty is one of the biggest push factors behind child marriage in Pakistan. © picture alliance/AP Photo Pakistan ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990 Activists in Pakistan have called on Islamabad to raise the minimum age of marriage to 18. The age requirement for marriage is currently 16 in all parts of the country except in the southern province of Sindh, where it is 18. Pakistan ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1990, pledging commitment to protect the rights of children, as well as the elimination of child marriage.

Women playing pivotal role in socio-economic development of country

National March 9, 2021 FAISALABAD: Speakers at a seminar have demanded equal rights for the women at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad on the International Women’s Day. The UAF faculty and students also took out a rally and arranged a seminar to mark the International Women’s Day. The rally was taken out from Admin Block and culminated at Iqbal Auditorium, which was led by UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asif Tanveer. Addressing the participants, UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asif Tanveer said that no society make the progress without active participation of women in the socio-economic development. He said that women could play a vital role in the development and overall increase in the GDP of the country. The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, said. Faculty of Food Nutrition and Homes Sciences Dean Prof Dr Masood Sadiq Butt said that unluckily in men’s dominant society, women were deprived of their rights. He said that the government was committed to p

Women and their lives of unrecognised toil - Newspaper

Social biases, slow implementation of female-friendly legislation and a high cost of choosing to challenge the archaic power framework did not stop women of Pakistan from pursuing their passion and fending for families. Following the lead of resistance icons like Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, rape survivor Mukhtaran Mai and the brave human rights activist Asma Jahangir, they are marching on, beating odds, contributing to home-making and nation-building, striving for wage parity, exercising right to education, breaking glass ceilings and transforming society in the process. The compelling business case for a gender-focused approach to investment decisions in public and private sectors has nudged the government and companies to take interest in applying a gender lens. The slow progress towards gender parity, however, hammers into the need to do more.

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