Bill on women's rights.A long-awaited and controversial bill on women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and has been presented before Pakistan's National Assembly. The bill aims to abolish discriminatory laws against women--including the custom whereby a woman who marries outside a tribe or clan can be killed by the family in the name of honor, and the Islamic Hudood ordinance The Hudood Ordinance (Urdu: حدود مسودہ) (also spelled Hudud) was a law in Pakistan that was in force from 1979 to 2006. It has been replaced by the Women's Protection Bill. that fails to separate rape from adultery adultery Sexual relations between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse. Prohibitions against adultery are found in virtually every society; Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions all condemn it, and in some Islamic countries it is still punishable by . The latter is more contentious, as conservatives argue its abolition would be "un-Islamic." |
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