My message, “a right is not a privilege”, denial of right to education to girls and its implications. #internationalwomensday #breakthebias2022 #AuratMarch2022
Impacts of Forced Conversions on Education of Minority Girls”, which she co-authored with Rabbia Arshad Turkmani.
On #InternationalWomensDay2021, Rabbia Arshad and Zeeba T. Hashmi discuss women issues, including Aurat Azadi March which has been caught the eye (Aurat March)
Child abuse and lifelong trauma it causes to children is an issue that must be talked about in context of education access in Pakistan.
A look into Punjab Assembly resolutions passed during the period 2018-2022 has revealed lawmakers expressing very little concern for the educational crisis in the province. The nature of these resolutions and the number of times an educational issue has been …
there is a lack of evidence about the formation of such kind of department. And some the researchers are of the view that no such department was set up by the secular Jinnah. In the article titled ‘Secular Jinnah and the so-called Department of Islamic Reconstruction’ published in 2017, the author Yasser Latif Hamdani claims; “Before fake news there was Orya Maqbool Jan. These are the people who brought you Jinnah’s diary which was discovered in the 1980s by Zia’s government”
Weightage needs to be given to our constitutional fundamental rights, such as article 25-A and article 22(1) over those falling under Principle of policy chapter, such as the much quoted Article 31. This demarcation between chapters is necessary because fundamental rights cannot be compromised at any cost, whereas principles of policy are subjected to availability of resources.
This review dissects through the national curriculum prescribed for middle schoolers in Pakistan in order to understand how geography is meant to be disseminated through school education and what civic actions it is promoting to help our youth stay informed …
A disaster has hit us hard, and more is expected in the coming years with far more intensity than what we witnessed today. It is now time to sober up and get off with our national obsession with defining religious morals through education. We needed a science-orientated education instead, that could have given us the capacity to deal with calamities that we are today facing. Perhaps it is still not too late to wake up; perhaps a sincere resolve to reform our education in light of current realities can save Pakistan from major disasters in future.
This policy brief dissects into the vulnerabilities of girls belonging to Hindu communities in Sindh caused by a lack of legislation on criminalizing forced conversions. This brief also highlights on how this fear of social exploitation creates a ripple effect …