Child marriage: laws, verdicts, solutions
Pakistan turned 77 this year, yet the children harbored by the fifth most populated country continue to be failed by the state. One of the many challenges in this regard…
Child marriage and the law
Pakistan’s children are its future. Yet not only is this generation put to work in homes, fields and factories, they are also the silent objects of abuse and violence in…
What laws can do to marriage
One brief order by Lahore’s district coordination officer last week hit home with a ferocity rare even for the fearful times we are living in. And the application of a…
Getting the law to work
A recent conviction under the Sindh Domestic Violence Act of 2013 is both a cause for celebration and reflection. Celebration as it shows that justice for domestic violence victims in…
Child marriages
THE recent judgement of the Lahore High Court in ‘Azka Wahid vs Province of Punjab’ has declared the arbitrary distinction in the legally prescribed minimum age of marriage in the…
Child marriages
OUR society seems to have been obsessed for long with the idea of matrimony. Mercifully, the growing trend towards female education has to an extent weakened this obsession — but…
Ending child marriage
There have been numerous attempts by private members of Pakistan’s National Assembly and Senate to amend the country’s Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929. In recent years, the proposed amendments…
Morocco law reform offers hope for women’s rights
Two decades after a landmark but limited revision of Morocco’s family law marked a breakthrough for women, activists hope new reforms will defy Islamist objections and provide greater equality. The…
Lawyering and its discontents
The plight of young law graduates, and specifically the fact that they get paid very little, has recently been much discussed on social media. Since some of the contentions raised…
Laws, protocols and trafficking
Every country in the world is affected by human trafficking either as a point of origin, transit or destination, and Pakistan is not an exception. The UNODC describes human trafficking…
