Tahira Abdullah

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The writer is a development practitioner, researcher, human rights defender, peace activist and humanitarian volunteer.

Poverty and Women

Women’s work is not just denied by their spouses, fathers, brothers, sons, along with extended natal and marital family members – but shockingly, also by successive civilian and military dispensations over the past 75 years

To March or Not to March

Marching on 8th March for women’s rights has been a global annual occurrence for 166 years; in Pakistan for 75 years; and in the...

A Femicide Epidemic?

As the number and frequency of violent sexual crimes against women register a steep rise, successive governments, the justice system and society in general fail to address the issue

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