by Tehreem Azeem
Forty-five-year-old Shan Bibi belongs to Ghora Khela village of district Swat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. She got married at a very young age. According to the customs of the area, it was not an unusual thing to happen. Her husband was not very welcoming towards her and treated her badly. She tried her…
by Fizza Rashid
Kohistan video scandal case is one of the most brutal cases in the history of Pakistan. Five young women were murdered in the name of honor on a jirga’s order after a video of them from a wedding ceremony was uploaded on YouTube in which they could be seen clapping and enjoying the dance of…
Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre is hosting a Cross-Regional Feminist Convening in Thailand from 5th August to 7th August 2019 to fill the perceived gap in the opportunities to connect beyond specific fields and modalities of operations as well as agendas set by others. The aim of the convening is to strengthen our sub-regional…
by Tehreem Azeem
Sixty-five-year-old Naseem Bibi runs a grocery shop inside her house in a village near Hyderabad, Sindh. She opened this shop a year ago after attending Financial Management Training (FMT) organized by Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre as part of its project ‘Drivers of Change’. ‘Now, I buy my medicines myself. I do not have…
by Marrium Jameela
East Kalimantan, an Indonesian province in the east of the island of Borneo, is home of indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas like Kutai National Park. If we try to uncover the problems of local women in Kalimantan, we will find horrific stories of pain and miseries. Women, here, not only struggle against domestic violence…
by Sheher Bano
“It was like a Doomsday for me when I finally decided to part ways with my husband. Had I not done so, he would have. The new love of my husband had conditioned to marry him only if he leaves me first.” The 35-year-old slim structured Noreen Huda was narrating her story with exhausted eyes.…
by Hassan Ibrahim Ch.
What is a home? It is a secure place to live in, four walls to call your own, a place where you can rest, express yourself, are respected, loved, socialize with loved ones and replenish your physical and mental health. A safe home is the fundamental right of every human being. An individual’s right to…
by Fizza Rashid
I am a woman and I pay a heavy price for being that. Though I had no say in choosing what gender I will be born with and in which country or family but still I have to pay for what I was born as. A major chunk of my income or my family goes…
by Almas Virani
It’s a gloomy day in Hyderabad, the pearl city of India. There is love in the air. Love that stinks of fear, obsession, toxic masculinity, and misogyny. 27-year-old Ajay is waiting outside a girls’ college ready with the ‘song of the day’ for his ‘love’. He plays a new Bollywood song on his phone for…
by Marrium Jameela
Jakarta has become one of the most insecure cities for women in the world – a bad achievement for Indonesia which has 135 million female residents. The issue of sexual violence in Indonesia is one of the scary scourges. The high rate of sexual violence is also because of the reason that there are no laws…
