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Where Are They Now: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

By Areej Siddiqui A forgotten but important issue—out of the limelight. Sexual harassment at the workplace holds little credibility as a socio-political phenomenon in Pakistan and even less as a criminal offence. Only recently has a legislative framework been put in place to address cases of sexual...

WATN: Child Abuse

By Areej Siddiqui Out of the spotlight, child abuse is an important forgotten detail of Pakistan. It is too easy to confine physical abuse to the lust for violence, sexual abuse to sexual frustration, emotional abuse to simple pig-headedness, but at the root of all these is raw power. Repeated studies and...