Farzana Bari Explained

Farzana Bari
Birth Name:Farzana Bari
Native Name:فرزانہ باری
Birth Date:7 March 1957
Nationality:Pakistani
Alma Mater:University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Occupation:Academic, Ex-director Gender studies department Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad
Known For:Human Rights Activist, Feminist, Member Awami Workers Party

Farzana Bari (Urdu: فرزانہ باری, born 7 March 1957) is a Pakistani feminist, human rights activist and academic who served as the director of the Gender Studies Department at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan.[1] [2] [3]

Career

Bari is a leading voice on issues of women's rights in Pakistan, with more than twenty five years of academic and professional experience in the field of gender studies. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from University of Sussex, United Kingdom, with a doctoral thesis on "Effects of Employment on the Status of Women within Family." She is also active in policy advice and advocacy on women's economic, political and social empowerment in society. She also did research on "Women’s Substantive Representation in Pakistani Politics."[4] [5] [6] She is founder of the first gender studies department in any university in Pakistan.[7]

Feminism/human rights activism

Farzana Bari is human rights activist who promotes justice and gender equality in Pakistan.[8] [9] She militates against the male-dominated system of jirgas[10] and pleads in favor of looser Islamic rules regarding women's rights in Pakistan.[11] [12]

In 2013, Bari estimated that at least eleven million women were not eligible to vote because authorities did not issued them the national identity card numbers.[13] 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.[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] 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.[19] 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".[20]

Bari raised her voice against the honor killings of women in Pakistan.[21] [22] 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.[23] [24]

Politics

Bari also served as a senior leader and vice president of Awami Workers Party (AWP). She joined AWP since it was formed in 2012.[25] [26] [27] [28] She was elected as women secretary AWP in party's third central congress held in Lahore on 12-13 March.[29]

Articles

Bari also wrote many articles as a columnist for The Express Tribune and Daily Times Pakistan.[30] [31]

Notes and References

  1. News: Dawn.com . Naveed Siddiqui . Kohistan video case: Girls declared alive by SC had actually been killed, says Bari . DAWN.COM . 21 October 2016 . en.
  2. News: Discrimination: For women in rural areas, healthcare not a basic right . The Express Tribune . 7 July 2013 . en.
  3. News: Welle (www.dw.com) . Deutsche . Young Pakistani girls learn to speak up for their rights . DW . 9 November 2011 . DW.COM.
  4. Web site: Democracy, the Political and Social Movements in Europe and South Asia: An Intercontextual Dialogue . German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
  5. News: Call for greater role of women in politics . The Express Tribune . 31 August 2017 . en.
  6. News: Zakaria . Rafia . The thorny question of quotas . DAWN.COM . 21 September 2016 . en.
  7. News: Brother found guilty of murdering Pakistani model in 'honor killing' . NBC News . en.
  8. Pakistan Liberation Movement interview with Dr. Farzana Bari. Vimeo. 9 March 2016.
  9. News: WDF pays tribute to women who stood up against dictatorship . The Nation . 16 February 2020 . en.
  10. https://tribune.com.pk/story/676541/blind-justice-reforms-can-make-jirgas-more-representative/ Blind justice: Reforms can make jirgas more representative
  11. https://www.enca.com/world/pakistan-clerics-say-women-dont-need-cover Pakistan clerics say women don't need to cover up
  12. News: Decree controversy: Civil society activists seek abolition of CII . The Express Tribune . 14 March 2014 . en.
  13. News: Taliban, taboos bar millions of women from Pakistan vote . DAWN.COM . 25 April 2013 . en.
  14. https://www.geo.tv/latest/68953-rights-activist-farzana-bari-for-reopening-of-kohistan-video-case Rights activist Farzana Bari for reopening of Kohistan video case
  15. News: Reporter . The Newspaper's Staff . SC asks Nadra to verify Kohistan girls' identity . DAWN.COM . 7 April 2017 . en.
  16. News: Dr. Farzana Bari accuses ANP leaders and KP police for protecting the people behind Kohistan killings . Daily Times . 2 April 2019.
  17. News: Bhatti . Haseeb . Girls in 2011 Kohistan video were killed, Supreme Court told . DAWN.COM . 2 January 2019 . en.
  18. News: Three Sentenced for Years-old 'Honor' Killings . Newsweek Pakistan . September 6, 2019.
  19. Luavut Zaid, INTERVIEW: ‘This has gone on for a long, long time’ –Dr Farzana Bari, Pakistantoday.com, 15 August 2015
  20. Tim Craig, Pakistani husbands can ‘lightly beat’ their wives, Islamic council says, Washingtonpost.com, 27 May 2016
  21. News: Pakistani woman's body found by roadside after marriage deal goes awry . South China Morning Post . 16 July 2020 . en.
  22. News: Raja . Katharine Houreld, Shafait . Pakistan PM: honor killing of pregnant woman was 'unacceptable' . Reuters . 29 May 2014 . en.
  23. https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-10-06/pakistan-unanimously-passes-legislation-try-and-stop-honor-killings Pakistan unanimously passes legislation to try to stop 'honor killings'
  24. News: Afzal Kohistani: 'Honour killing' whistleblower shot dead . BBC News . 7 March 2019.
  25. News: Awami Workers Party: Interim leaders elected for new left party . The Express Tribune . 11 November 2012 . en.
  26. News: The Left way: AWP vows to struggle for 'real' change, egalitarian society . The Express Tribune . 28 September 2014 . en.
  27. News: Legitimising Misogyny . Newsline . en.
  28. News: Court upholds life sentence for Baba Jan . The Friday Times . 17 June 2016 .
  29. News: Reporter . The Newspaper's Staff . AWP vows to strive for socialist society . DAWN.COM . 14 March 2022 . en.
  30. Web site: dr.farzana.bari, Author at The Express Tribune. The Express Tribune. 9 March 2016.
  31. News: Dr Farzana Bari Archives . Daily Times.
  32. Web site: Women Parliamentarians. 9 March 2016.

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