During a seminar at SZABIST, Dr Fouzia Saeed questioned the norms of Pakistani society and asked the attendees to stand up for gender equality once and for all, saying, “I’m counting on your generation.”
December 12, 2011, will go down as a historic day for all women in Pakistan: new legislation decrees that hate crimes against women and cultural norms to shackle women will be punishable by law.
This book from India is relevant to contemporary Pakistan because it documents the experiences of rural women who entered politics to solve their issues.
Unless the stereotypical narrative of rape that governed Mukhtaran Mai’s case is not reconstructed, future rape victims will find that irrespective of the evidence in their cases, they have already been ruled against in the courts of law and public opinion.