Farzana Bari
Farzana Bari is a Pakistani feminist, human rights activist and academic who served as the director of the Gender Studies Department at Quaid-e-Azam University.
Biography
Farzana Bari also served as a senior leader of Awami Workers Party and is a columnist for The Express Tribune and Daily Times Pakistan.[1]
Farzana Bari promotes secularism and liberalism in Pakistan.[2][3] She militates against the male-dominated system of jirgas[4] and pleads in favor of looser islamic rules regarding women's rights in Pakistan.[5]
In January 2014, she militated to reopen the Kohistan dancing video case where she claimed that the girls appearing in the video were then murdered after dancing at a wedding.[6] In August 2015, she spoke up about the 300 children sex slaves in Hussain Khan Wala Village (Kasu) forced to do sex videos from 2006 to 2014.[7] In May 2016, she strongly opposed the Islamic council's decision to make it legal for husbands to "slightly" beat up their wives, calling the council "decadent".[8]
In October 2016, as the National Assembly of Pakistan outlawed honor killing, Farzana Bari warned that this law could be bypassed as a judge has to decide first and foremost if a homicide is indeed a case of honor killing or not.[9]
Articles
- Women Parliamentarians: Challenging the Frontiers of Politics in Pakistan, March 2011[10]
References
- ^ "dr.farzana.bari, Author at The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ Pakistan Liberation Movement interview with Dr. Farzana Bari. Vimeo. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "INTERVIEW: 'This has gone on for a long, long time' –Dr Farzana Bari". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ Blind justice: Reforms can make jirgas more representative, Tribune.com.pk, 27 February 2014
- ^ Pakistan clerics say women don't need to cover up, Enca.com, 20 October 2015
- ^ Rights activist Farzana Bari for reopening of Kohistan video case, Geo.tv, 29 January 2014
- ^ Luavut Zaid, INTERVIEW: ‘This has gone on for a long, long time’ –Dr Farzana Bari, Pakistantoday.com, 15 August 2015
- ^ Tim Craig, Pakistani husbands can ‘lightly beat’ their wives, Islamic council says, Washingtonpost.com, 27 May 2016
- ^ Pakistan unanimously passes legislation to try to stop 'honor killings', Pri.org, 6 October 2016
- ^ "Women Parliamentarians". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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