Abstract

Human rights” is essential for a dignified existence. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that women make up around half of the total population, yet at the same time they are disregarded. Reasonable and practical steps are vital for the development as a nation. In Human Rights, a neglected aspect is “Women’s rights” which is not neglected in academia but in practical life. The paper focuses on the existing circumstance of women’s rights generally and the circumstances of women’s rights in Pakistan particularly. The study examines present conditions and circumstances, where women face various issues. Conclusively, seven essential recommendations are made for women’s rights in public as well as in private organizations for a balanced society with sustainable development.

Key Words

Human Rights, Sustainable development goals, UNDP, Women Rights, Pakistan

The situation

As we know that women make 50 % of the population. In 2000, UNDP made women’s rights a focal issue to be considered fundamentally all over the world. Different endeavors have been made to manage women’s rights as issue all-inclusive. In the Convention on the Elimination of all types of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1996, there was adequate hope for women’s rights. And women’s rights activists saw the improvement as a noteworthy triumph for women. 







Pakistan




Pakistan tried to deal with human rights issues at its own. In Human Rights Council at the United Nations, Pakistan's delegation attempts and sets up a courageous front in protecting the nation's human rights record. Pakistan has also marked numerous critical UN conventions attempting to actualize the women’s rights locally. But what actually is the situation?

Human Rights Perspective

From one Human Rights Perspective, Pakistan's by and large financial markers were practically identical with rising economies in general, but its social markers have been falling behind even Nepal and Bhutan. 

From another Human Rights Perspective, It has been noticed that Pakistan is exceptionally poor as far as water quality regardless of various activities at the government level. The markers have gone down definitely in the course of the last 10-15 years coming about contrarily on wellbeing and sustenance. Poor water quality emerged out of untreated modern waste streaming into drinking water resources, causing expanded pervasiveness of hepatitis, improper growth and different diseases (Jamal & Amina. 2005).

Still from another Human Rights Perspective, if truth be told, this seemed to come down to administrative issue as lodging social orders and enterprises extended without arranging in every single significant city, leaving waste mechanical water and sewerage squander into trenches and channels of water, influencing urban foundation (Ansari, & Sarfraz, 2011).

From yet another Human Rights Perspective, the issue exists at the very basic level which was noted is no focus and allocation of administrative and budgetary forces of the locale governments (Chaudhary, et al., 2011).

Pakistanis are battling poverty, imbalance and bad form of governance, and taking care of the aftermath from environmental change. 




From Women’s Rights Perspectives




Is a universally acknowledged fact that women make around 50% of the population? The alarming condition is that women’s absence of education in country territories, further affects the low status as women in any country.

Sustainable development goals are established in order to gauge the progress of countries on a scale and thus put them in ranking and rating (Saigol, Rubina, 2016). However, Paksitan has made commitment in meeting the 17 sustainable development goals with destinations to building the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) but the reality is not very hopeful (Noureen, 2011).

As far as Pakistan is concerned, the Gender Gap Index 2015 positioned Pakistan second from the bottom among 145 nations. 

Pakistan verified a score on Sustainable Development Goals of 55.6 under against a far higher provincial normal of 63.3 and is even lower than territorial friends Bangladesh's 56.2 and India's 58.1. (Sohail, 2014).

Along these lines, the country situated 122 on the SDG rundown of 157 nations diverged from Bangladesh's 120 and India's 116 position, according to July 2017 results. The financial issues have an immediate bearing on women lives in Pakistani society. All inclusive, Pakistan's positioning in the Mother Mortality Ratio (MMR) slipped to 149 from 147 – only just after Afghanistan – as indicated by the State of the World's Mothers 2015 report by Save the Children. 

Women issues in Pakistan include; lack of education, nourishment, instability, deficient sustenance, low monetary allocation, high security concerns, which actually have been referred to as hindrances when meeting Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets (Tertilt, & Doepke, 2010).  

Almost 50 % of the nation's population who are not full members in the domain of financial advancement, then how come a nation be successful in developing itself in order to compete in the world community.

What Forms Women are denied of the Equivalent Rights?

• Work discrimination: occupations 

• Systematic denial  

• Public organizations: the discrimination in public responsibilities 

• Private organizations: consideration of women in private organisations and business ventures.  

• Legal surety: legal security need exists  

• Socially: sexual violence, abuse, household work unpaid and uncounted burden, 

• Financial aspects: monetary responsibility issue

• Women status – not considering a socially equal to men

Recommendations

• Work discrimination: occupations 

• Systematic denial  

• Public organizations: the discrimination in public responsibilities 

• Private organizations: consideration of women in private organisations and business ventures.  

• Legal surety: legal security need exists  

• Socially: sexual violence, abuse, household work unpaid and uncounted burden, 

• Financial aspects: monetary responsibility issue

• Women status – not considering a socially equal to men

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