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]
gollark: I mean, I guess it depends on the business, but there are increasingly capital-y ones.
gollark: Structure and capital, nowadays.
gollark: No.
gollark: Have you seen the existence of twitterstorms etc? Imagine that with power.
gollark: Less so given actual due process and investigation.

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