Trapped in their seclusion
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
By Zubeida Mustafa
Wednesday, 10 Jun, 2009
HAVE you noticed the invisibility of women in the IDP camps? Although they constitute a substantial number of the displaced, it is the men who speak on their behalf.
Not at all surprising. Remember for years the election commission reported areas in the NWFP where not a single female vote was cast because jirgas had banned women from voting.
Hence it was an instructive — and also humane — exercise when some women from Peshawar visited their compatriots in an IDP camp in the NWFP. Bushra Gohar, ANP’s MNA, circulated the report prepared by them. Describing it as “a joint effort” with the identities of the authors being kept a secret, Bushra said the report was being disseminated to “build sensitivity to the realities and complexities of the issues and challenges women are faced with”.
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Wednesday, 10 Jun, 2009
HAVE you noticed the invisibility of women in the IDP camps? Although they constitute a substantial number of the displaced, it is the men who speak on their behalf.
Not at all surprising. Remember for years the election commission reported areas in the NWFP where not a single female vote was cast because jirgas had banned women from voting.
Hence it was an instructive — and also humane — exercise when some women from Peshawar visited their compatriots in an IDP camp in the NWFP. Bushra Gohar, ANP’s MNA, circulated the report prepared by them. Describing it as “a joint effort” with the identities of the authors being kept a secret, Bushra said the report was being disseminated to “build sensitivity to the realities and complexities of the issues and challenges women are faced with”.
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Labels: IDPs, Plight of Women, Swat Operation, Taliban, War on Terror
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