The forgotten, rejected and neglected women of Pakistan: Kiran’s story.
Government of Sindh must take action to protect the thousands of women afflicted with obstetric fistula UPDATE, January 2019: In response to the petition, the Health Department of Sindh has committed to establishing four fistula [...]
Pakistan Addresses High Rate of Fistula
Pakistan Addresses High Rate of Fistula The high court in Pakistan’s Sindh region is facing the country’s first case to seek recognition of the widespread incidence of obstetric fistula as a violation of women’s fundamental [...]
Unnecessary Suffering
Unnecessary Suffering A new case filing in the Sindh province of Pakistan demands that the government take immediate action to help thousands of women afflicted each year with obstetric fistula. During what should have been [...]
Pakistani High Court Calls for Response to Allegations Women Are Denied Maternal Health Services
Pakistani High Court Calls for Response to Allegations Women Are Denied Maternal Health Services (PRESS RELEASE) Today the High Court of Sindh ordered the government of Sindh to respond by September 29 to a petition [...]
Syed & Others v. Province of Sindh & Another (Sindh High Court of Pakistan)
Pakistan’s Sindh Government increases access to obstetric fistula repair services to comply with orders by the High Court
Combatting Child Marriage
Combatting Child Marriage The numbers are disturbing. According to a recent UNICEF study, one in nine girls in the developing world will marry before age 15, one in three will marry before 18. Some are [...]
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UN Takes Major Action to End Child Marriage
UN Takes Major Action to End Child Marriage For the first time in history, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution dedicated to ending the blight of child marriage. Over 100 countries co-sponsored [...]
Child Marriage in South Asia: Stop the Impunity
A new report calls on the governments in South Asia to stop the human rights crisis that is child marriage. This publication was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan
CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently issued concluding observations from its February review of [...]
Concluding Observations: Pakistan_Committee on the Rights of the Child_2003_English
Concluding Observations: Pakistan_Committee on the Rights of the Child_2003_English
Shadow Letter: Pakistan_Committee on the Rights of the Child_2003_English
Concluding Observations: Pakistan_Committee on the Rights of the Child_2003_English
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
