DAUGHTERS OF A LESSER GOD: Minority Women in Pakistan

Name: DAUGHTERS OF A LESSER GOD: Minority Women in Pakistan
Start: 2018-03-29T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-03-29T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 14th & V

Date and Time

Mar 29, 2018 11:00 am

Location

14th & V

2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009

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Please joins us in the Langston Room for this important conversation entitled Daughters of a Lesser God: Minority Women in Pakistan

Minority women are eking out an existence that is reminiscent of the Dark Ages. State security forces in Balochistan routinely abduct Baloch women and even minor boys. Human rights defenders fear they are being used as sex slaves by Pakistan soldiers. Christian and Hindu women and minor girls are abducted at point of gun as fair game, forcibly converted and married to men they never met before, in Punjab and Sindh provinces respectively. Unfortunately, the civil and political society either lack the will and resources to counter this sex slavery or treat the issue casually as it does not affect the mainstream, rather the most vulnerable section of society living on the fringes.