• The Women's Protection Bill (Urdu: تحفظِ نسواں بل) which was passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan on 15 November 2006 is an attempt to amend the...
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    Retrieved 13 September 2012. Chandran, Cynthia (20 June 2012). "Women's Protection Bill needs more teeth" Archived 20 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine...
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    India, the government introduced The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017. The bill proposed to make triple talaq in any form—spoken...
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  • Rape in Pakistan (category Violence against women in Pakistan)
    Asma Jahangir, who was a co-founder of the women's rights group Women's Action Forum, up to 72% of women in custody in Pakistan are physically or sexually...
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  • corrected by the introduction of Women's Protection Bill. The Sexual Harassment Bill was created to ensure women's safety in public and work spaces,...
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    President General Pervez Musharraf signed into law the "Women's Protection Bill", on 1 December 2006. The bill places rape laws under the penal code and allegedly...
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    on women. 1985: Reserved quota for women increased. 1988: First female prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto. 2006: Women's protection bill was...
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  • eventually passed in 2006 as the Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Act of 2006, also known as The Women's Protection Bill. However, doubts of its effectiveness...
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    should be treated as an adult or not. The bill introduced concepts from the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-Country...
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    The Women's Health Protection Act (H.R. 12) is a piece of legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives aimed at expanding abortion...
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    Hudud Ordinances (category Women's rights in Pakistan)
    criticism parts of the law were extensively revised in 2006 by the Women's Protection Bill. The Hudood Law was intended to implement Shari'a law or bring...
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    opposed the Huqooq-e-Niswan bill in 2016 claiming that it was un-Islamic. Rehman also rejected the Women's Protection Bill in 2016, which protects domestic...
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    (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, popularly known as the Women's Reservation Bill, 2023 (IAST: Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam), was introduced in Lok...
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  • Protection of Women Against Violence Bill 2015 is a bill drafted by CM's Special Monitoring Unit (Law and Order) and passed by the Provincial Assembly...
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    also called for restoration of judiciary. In 2006, JI opposed the Women's Protection Bill saying it did not need to be scrapped but instead, be applied in...
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    Islam and domestic violence (category Women's rights in Islam)
    divorce. Most women's rights activists concede that while divorce can provide potential relief, it does not constitute an adequate protection or even an...
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  • part of the child protection policies of India. The Parliament of India passed the 'Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Bill (POCSO), 2011' regarding...
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  • Honor killing (category Violence against women)
    or by the death penalty in the most extreme cases. In 2006, the Women's Protection Bill amended the Hudood Ordinances. In 2016, Pakistan repealed a loophole...
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  • Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018 (Bill No. 210-C of 2016). The 2019 act and the immediately preceding 2018 bill, were both preceded...
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  • influenced the country's judicial development. Family law Women's Protection Bill Marriage in Pakistan Women related laws in Pakistan Inheritance law in Pakistan...
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  • subject. In 2006, parts of the law were extensively revised by the Women's Protection Bill. In 1978 Zia established "Shariat Appellate Benches", "grafted"...
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    The history of radiation protection begins at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the realization that ionizing radiation from natural and artificial...
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    Ideology where as chairman of the Legal Committee he drafted the Women's Protection Bill. Founder of the private law firm H. Khairi Law Associates, Khairi...
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    President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994. The Act provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed...
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  • December 2017, the Lok Sabha passed The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017. The bill was planned to make instant triple talaq (talaq-e-biddah)...
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  • The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law...
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    Ghafoor Ahmed Khurshid Ahmad Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam Liaqat Baloch Women's Protection Bill Ali Haider Noor Khan Niazi List of Islamic political parties "Islamist...
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  • The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 (Act No.35 of 2013; previously Bill No.66 of 2013) was an Act of the Oireachtas which, until 2018, defined...
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  • Gender apartheid (category Women's rights in religious movements)
    Efforts to stop discriminatory treatment of women have been made through policies such as the Women's Protection Bill, enacted by Pakistan's National Assembly...
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  • wing (All-India Women's Conference) and several other women's organizations. Supporters largely sought to convince the public that the bills did not stray...
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