Pakistan

Capital: Islamabad, Main city: Karachi, 212 millions people-density 245/km2 (wikipedia) Official Language URDU, 90% muslims. Little religious tolerance

News

December 2023 : Malala YOUSAFZAI – (1997) – Gave a lecture in Johannesburg on the 5th.
Nobel prize in 2014 at 16 (returned to Pakistan) (a very detailed page on WIKIPEDIA) and her blog Malala.org

March 2019 = On March 8, 2019, the Hum Aurtein (Us Women) movement organized an Aurat March (Women’s March) in Pakistan in all four provinces to celebrate International Women’s Day. SOURCE From metropolitan cities to far-flung areas of Pakistan, women came out to march for economic, environmental and social justice; accountability and justice for violence; reproductive rights; justice against police brutality; inclusion of transgender individuals and women with disabilities; the rights of women from minority groups; access to public spaces and push for peace and against war; against militarization in daily life and the rhetoric of jingoism. While a large number of women participated in the event a number of like-minded men also joined the march to show their support for the cause.

Women’s Associations in Pakistan

• BPW
• WILPF

Brave women

• Tabassum ADNAN Founder Kwendo Jirga (Sister’s Council) https://khwendojirga.wordpress.com/
• Bina SHAH, author and President of “alliance française” KARACHI
• Begum JAN President Tribal Women Welfare Association NGO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begum_Jan
• Khawar MUTAZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khawar_Mumtaz
• Kishwar NAHEED, poet and feminist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishwar_Naheed
• Begum SHAD Founder Asso Behaviour and Knowledge Transformation (ABKT) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad_Begum
• Ghulam SUGHRA Founder & CEO Marvi Rural Development Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghulam_Sughra

Others

• National commission on the status of women (government) http://www.ncsw.gov.pk/ (Chair person: Khawar MUTAZ) see above
• ladies fund established in 2007 as an initiative to provide financial security to women and to promote and train women entrepreneurs.

Created 23rd March 2019, updated December 2023