GENDER BASE VIOLENCE

Introduction:

Gender-based violence is recognized today as a major issue in Pakistan being as a Muslim society. This violence includes a wide range of violations of women’s human rights, including trafficking in women and girls, rape, wife abuse, sexual abuse of children, and harmful cultural practices and traditions that irreparably damage girls’ and women’s reproductive and sexual health.

 

Theory:

Discrimination represents a significant social problem in Pakistan as well as throughout the world. Females face discrimination everywhere in the world. Here I would like to identify some key points of basic discrimination of females which have been indicated much time in articles. In societies where a male child is regarded as more valuable to the family, females often are denied the right of life, denied the right to name and nationality. And by being married off early or forced to stay at home and help in domestic chores, girls are often denied the right to education and all the advantages that go with it, the right to associate freely and the rights accompanying unjustified deprivation of liberty. These all are basic humiliation from family to females when males are regarded as the pillars of tomorrow.

Females often compelled by male to stay in home for domestic work and male consider their selves free by moving free in societies. Basic problem here has discussed on ground reality that we all are Muslims and we feel that female going out of home is against our dignity and honor. So religious causes are also resist in way of female liberty in society especially in Pakistan like Muslims society.

 Pakistan has for decades grossly underinvested in education, and in particular, women ‘education. Girls' education also means comprehensive change for a society. Educated women are essential to ending gender bias, starting by reducing the poverty that makes discrimination even worse in the developing world. 

Culturally in our societies there is male dominant social perception it is naturally, in our cultural norm and tradition we keep he female on tows .so to be a women in Pakistani society is very bad. A local women's rights group in Pakistan says the number of incidents of violence against women in Pakistan has increased at least seven percent over the past year. The impact of violent gender discrimination is being deeply felt in a number of ways in Pakistan.

However, the state of Pakistan does not deliver to its female citizens when it comes to equal rights. It is very unfortunate but the Pakistani constitution does not view women as equal and productive citizens of the country. The state views them as Muslim daughters, wives and mothers and values them according to their assigned roles in society — not as individual citizens with rights and aspirations of their own.

 Take the imposition of laws such as the (Hudood Ordinance) which gave control of a woman’s body and sexuality to the state and other members of her family. Then there is the (Qisas and Diyat Law), or the Law of Evidence, which institutionalized a reduced value assigned to a woman’s testimony based on the assumption that a woman’s role in society is different, or perhaps less productive, compared to that of a man. It is not just that but these legal and constitutional inequalities have also made certain types of criminal activities such as honor killings, domestic abuse and violence within families and tribes ‘compoundable’ — i.e., they are treated as crimes against the individual rather than as against the state.