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Added on: 02/06/2024
Transgender woman Nayab Ali is running in Thursday’s elections in Pakistan, aiming for a seat in the National Assembly. In traditionally conservative Pakistan, where no transgender person…

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Added on: 01/08/2024
01/08/2024
ISLAMABAD  –  Special Assistant to Prime Min­ister for Human Rights and Women Empowerment, Mush­aal Hussain Mullick here on Sunday said that the govern­ment was committed to provide…

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Added on: 12/26/2023
12/25/2023
After the groundbreaking entry of Sobia Khan into the political arena, another prominent transgender figure, Saima Shaukat, has stepped into the spotlight by submitting her nomination papers…

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Added on: 10/10/2023
10/09/2023
Clad in a Barbie-pink shalwar kameez, influencer and doctor Mehrub Moiz Awan reels off endless examples of harassment she’s received since becoming the sharp-tongued figurehead of Pakistan’s…

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Added on: 09/26/2023
09/25/2023
The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Monday resumed the registration of transgender persons, almost three months after it had halted the process. Following the May…

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Added on: 07/18/2023
07/17/2023
Former Senator Farhatullah Babar on Monday challenged the verdict of the Federal Shariat Court that struck down the Transgender (Protection of Rights) Act 2018. The civil appeal…

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Added on: 06/26/2023
Scanning the cafe between sips of his latte, Abir says caution is the byword of every gay man in Bangladesh. “People have been killed for talking about…

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Added on: 05/23/2023
05/22/2023
Transgender activists in Pakistan hold protest to appeal an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their rights….

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Added on: 05/22/2023
05/22/2023
The Pakistani Federal Shariat Court struck down major portions of the landmark Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act Friday. The court, which determines whether laws comply with…

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Added on: 05/21/2023
05/20/2023
Transgender activists in Pakistan said they plan to appeal to the highest court in the land an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting…

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Added on: 03/20/2023
ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz on Sunday said there was a united stance that the ‘guru culture’ in the khawaja sira (non-binary…

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Added on: 02/22/2023
Dr. Sarah Gill was just 14 when she ran away from home in Karachi. For most of her childhood, she had suffered the humiliation of feeling like…

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Added on: 02/18/2023
02/17/2023
What was considered to be a historic act in the country’s history is now being amended to erase any minor gains or goodwill that was generated. On…

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Added on: 02/17/2023
Spain on Thursday joined a small but growing club of nations that allow people to change their gender on their ID card through a simple administrative declaration. Several…

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Added on: 02/14/2023
The Meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights was held here at the Parliament House on Monday with Senator Walid Iqbal in the chair. The…

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Added on: 12/20/2022
Transgender Pakistanis face the complex challenges of life in a homeland with both a strong conservative Muslim society and a groundbreaking transgender rights law. Pakistan, a conservative…

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Added on: 12/19/2022
12/18/2022
A few days after receiving criticism for her opinion on the film Joyland, renowned designer Maria B established the Khunsa Fund for the empowerment of the intersex…

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Added on: 11/21/2022
11/20/2022
Karachi (AFP) – Hundreds of transgender activists and their supporters protested in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi Sunday to campaign for equal rights and raise awareness of discrimination…

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Added on: 10/25/2022
Eunuchs, or “Khawaja Sira” as they were known, were the most dependable royal aides during the Mughal Empire. They commanded a great deal of respect and had…

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Added on: 10/01/2022
09/30/2022
Pakistan on Friday launched a hotline for transgender people in an effort to protect them from discrimination and harassment, a senior government official said. Trans people in…

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Added on: 09/30/2022
Pakistan is considering amending a landmark transgender rights bill passed in 2018 that some legislators and clerics argue contradicts Islamic teachings on gender identity. Rights activists, however,…

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Added on: 09/28/2022
09/26/2022
Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani on Monday referred the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) (Amendment) Bill, 2022, to the relevant standing committee for debate in order to reach…

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Added on: 09/24/2022
09/23/2022
A religious party in Pakistan has filed a petition against a law that protects the rights of transgender people. Opponents say the legislation could act as a…

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Added on: 09/06/2022
09/05/2021
Senator Mushtaq Ahmad on Monday presented the bill for amendments in the Transgender Protection Act, 2018 to the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights. The meeting was…

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Added on: 08/19/2022
Shivani Dave is a freelance journalist and broadcaster at Openly and Virgin Radio. Growing up I never thought Brown people could be LGBTQ+. That’s an absolutely ridiculous thought,…

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Added on: 08/17/2022
In the basement of a residential building in a developing part of Islamabad, a dozen or so transgender women are sitting in a circle on the floor….

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Added on: 05/29/2022
“Joyland”, the Pakistani film featuring a daring portrait of a transgender dancer in the Muslim country on Friday won the Cannes Queer Palm prize for best LGBT,…

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Added on: 04/04/2022
Expressing concerns over the increasing number and severity of reports of individual cases of humiliation of and violence against the transgender community, War Against Rape (WAR) has…

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Added on: 12/13/2021
12/12/2021
Karachi: Sindh has become the first province in the country to reserve one per cent seats each for people of determination and members of the transgender community…

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Added on: 10/26/2021
10/25/2021
As one walks through the lanes of the old city (Downtown) to meet the transgender people, the locals point at their homes in a very cynical way….