Campaigning in Pakistan

Socialist Resistance no23 | page 20

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International Women's Day will be celebrated in Lahore, Pakistan with a public meeting and march called by the Women Worker's Helpline and supported by the Joint Action Committee for Women's Rights. The themes of the actions will be for the abolition of laws which discriminate against women and against honour killings.

In Pakistan under the Hadood ordinances (Islamic law) women are treated as having half the value of men - insufferable in any situation arrested and tried. people to participate. but a particular problem in terms of cases of rape and violence against women.

Women are punished for relationships outside marriage with a death sentence being the maximum penalty. Thousands of women have been

The rally will be addressed by Asma Jehanghr from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and a number of prominent left leaders. Organisers are expecting around 1000