Voicing Issues of Human Rights Victims in Pakistan

Compendium of Human Rights Case Studies

Table of Contents

  Foreword ......02
  Acknowledgments  ......03
  Acronyms ......04
  Human Rights & Pakistan - An Overview ......07

Civil & Political Rights
  Context ......13
  Behind Closed Doors ......17
  Citizenship Denied ......23
  Racial Discrimination - A Clear & Present Danger ......29
  Sawara - A Settling of Scores ......35
  Sullied Honor, Black Honor  ......41
  The Third Sex - On the Fringes of Society ......47
  The Veil on Flesh Trade  ......55
  Troubled Waters, Blurred Boundaries ......67

Social & Economic Rights
  Context ......69
  Inheritance - A Right Denied ......73
  The Displaced – In the Footnotes of Development ......77

Reproductive Rights
  Context ......85
  Contraception - The Unclaimed Right ......89
  Unsafe Abortions - A Silent Pandemic ......95

Environmental Rights
  Context ......107
  Death of the Indus Delta ......111
  Rodh Mullazai - At the Brink of an Env. Catastrophe......117
 
References ......121

Policy Briefs
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     Reproductive Rights
     Environmental Rights
 

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