Growing Sexual Harassment in Pakistan

(Sarah Ahmed Malik, )

Sexual harassment has become one of the most common issue in Pakistan. With each coming day we see many news of sexual harassment in the newspaper, news-channel and social media. Now the question is who is behind such thing? Whether there is a certain group who do this kind of things and make videos and sell them to other organizations for some money or they do it for their own pleasure? Well in both cases it is the worst thing a society can expect. Unfortunately, we live in a country where 80% of women face sexual harassment on a daily basis. With this percentage the question arises on the rights of the women whether we are providing them those basic rights of protection? According to section 509 of Pakistan criminal code, the penalty of sexual harassment is the fine of RS.500,000 and prison up to 3 years. But still some people do such acts of harassment in the society openly and our law enforcing agencies looks miserable in stopping it. We see people openly harassing in the public, we will have to do something, or otherwise this thing will grow and grow and will eat our society like a termite. Our law enforcing agencies will have to work by day and night to stop this curse. So our children, women can freely and easily go to their educational institutions, working place and markets easily without having any fear of this curse. Women and children are the backbone of our society, they contribute to our national mainstream, they are the backbone of Pakistan, so we will have to secure their rights and protect them in order to provide them the better future and to free the society from this curse.

The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact- Christine Tsai

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