Fer Ghanaa Ansari

@Harvard_Law | @FulbrightPrgrm | QAU | Lawyer | Human Rights Law | Constitutional Law | Public International Law

[Fer Ghanaa Ansari @AnsariFer]

Super excited to share that I’ll be on the panel for this talk at Harvard Law on 13th October!

Feels quite surreal to be going back only 7 months after graduating as an LL.M. student at HLS. :)

[Law & Society in the Muslim World @HarvardPLSMW]

📢 Upcoming Event 📢 Muslim Women Speak: The Quest for Human Rights and Gender Justice in Islam - w/a distinguished panel of Muslim women scholars and activists. Thursday, Oct 13 @ 12:10 EST. For more info: https://t.co/Hwgf1TRBbi @musawah @equalitynow @HumanRightsHLS @hyshyama

[Salahuddin Ahmed @SalAhmedPK]

Najafi J. was earlier considered for SC but not chosen amid concerns re fitness & suitability. After 26th Amdmt, new JCP voted him to SC by majority. After 27th, PM chose him for FCC
Interesting to see what new jurisprudence emerges from FCC now its unshackled from past precedent

[Rida Hosain @RidaHosain]

Ali Baqar Najafi J’s note in the Noor Mukadam case is appalling. He suggests the murder stemmed from the “vice” of “living relationships”.

A judge must uphold the law, not deliver moral lectures in a case where a woman was brutally murdered.

Replug:
https://t.co/FPpjOrqMp7

[Reema Omer @reema_omer]

If anyone should be ���ashamed”, it is Justice Ali Baqar Najafi

His job was only to apply the law to facts of the case before him. But he decided to play moral police, engage in piety signalling, and blame the victim of a horrific, horrific crime for the actions of the perpetrator

Women are murdered and assaulted in their homes, in their places of work, on the streets, in schools and colleges. Perpetrators are their husbands, family members, in laws, teachers, colleagues, strangers. To argue that “such cases” are a “direct result” of a specific kind of relationship also shows extreme ignorance. Such a person really is not fit to be a judge

[Geo News Urdu @geonews_urdu]

جسٹس علی باقر نجفی کے اضافی نوٹ میں "لیونگ ریلیشن شپ" کو سنگین سماجی اور قانونی مسئلہ قرار دینے پرریما عمر کی رائے

@reema_omer

[Rida Hosain @RidaHosain]

Zainab Janjua & Imaan Mazari are fiercely independent and well-respected lawyers that are being punished for their views. It is shameful that the President IHCBA is weaponising the law, and suppressing independent voices.

Statement by female lawyers demanding withdrawal of FIR.

[Fer Ghanaa Ansari @AnsariFer]

Thank you for moderating this very important session and for the opportunity to contribute to it!

[Jan Beagle @JanMBeagle]

Today I moderated the review of #SDG5 at #HLPF2025. Achieving SDG 5 is not only a human rights imperative - it is a strategic necessity. In the face of intersecting crises, SDG 5 is an accelerator and enabler of the entire #2030Agenda. Progress on #SDG5 requires elimination of discrimination in law and in practice; adequate financing backed by robust data and political will; women’s leadership and the broadest possible partnerships. My thanks to the panelists for their insightful remarks. @unwomenchief @AlbertMotivans @AnsariFer @zarakhanna1 @UNECOSOC @MaritzaChanV

[MUSAWAH @musawah]

@AnsariFer Learn more about the discussion from the event here: https://t.co/kbi8PqUxp7

#islam #feminism #musawahmovement #muslimfamily #freeourfamilylaws

[MUSAWAH @musawah]

Shrinking civic space is affecting us by putting the safety of women and girls everywhere at risk. Globally, anti-rights narratives in public discourses are leading to rollbacks of hard-won women's rights.

📷: Cornelia Kästner-Meyer, Lutheran World Federation.

[MUSAWAH @musawah]

Will you be at #HRC59? Join us for a vital conversation about strategies to counter backlash against human rights, gender equality, civic space, featuring advocates such as our Senior International Advocacy Officer, Fer Ghanaa Ansari @AnsariFer

[Fer Ghanaa Ansari @AnsariFer]

De-escalate. Now.

To the Indian left: be louder in your calls for de-escalation. The backlash you’ll face from warmongers now is not as bad as the effects of war we will both suffer from. Be louder. This is for all of us.

De-escalate. Now.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Where is the good old progressive, anti-war, Indian, Left? If you still exist, & I know a few still do, please for the love of humanity, make yourselves heard!

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

Where is the good old progressive, anti-war, Indian, Left? If you still exist, & I know a few still do, please for the love of humanity, make yourselves heard!

[Benazir Shah @Benazir_Shah]

In 2016, a woman was raped by her brother’s friend. A trial court convicted the man. The decision was upheld by the LHC.

But in July this year, the Supreme Court ruled 2:1 that it was not a case of rape but instead of fornication.

Justice Ayesha Malik dissented.

Thread:

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

Pakistanis spent £5.3 million on rejected #UK visa applications, with close to 40 per cent applications rejected from Pakistan in 2023. In the same year, around 50pc of Schengen visas from #Pakistan were also rejected, with €3.344m spent on applications. https://t.co/Eg2KMCwERX

[Human Rights Commission of Pakistan @HRCP87]

Disrupting or shutting down the internet or any social media platforms bleed online businesses and commerce and adds to the misery of an already fragile and struggling economy. It also infringes on people's right to democratic decision making, information and expression. This practice must stop immediately.

[Maryam J @maryammjamali]

Genuinely believe that the lack of accessibility to public place and general lack of mobility is a contributing factor in mental illnesses being very common among Pakistani women.

[Reema Omer @reema_omer]

Futile proposal, I’m afraid

“International courts” don’t have the jurisdiction to adjudicate over such matters

Also, “crimes against humanity” have a different legal definition than what we hear on television and social media

[Reema Omer @reema_omer]

5. Pakistani case law on S. 496 is underdeveloped, but you can see Indian judgments on this provision to see how it is interpreted

It really boggles the mind how IK and Bushra bibi can be prosecuted, let alone convicted and sentenced, under S. 496

[Reema Omer @reema_omer]

4. S. 496 relates to fraudulently going through a “marriage ceremony”, knowing one isn’t actually married

This relates to deceiving the person you’re “marrying” (or deceiving people at large), and making them believe you are married when you know you are not

[Reema Omer @reema_omer]

1. You will find a lot of judgments that say marriage during iddat is irregular, not void

2. An irregular or even a void marriage isn’t a crime in Pakistan

3. IK, Bushra Bibi have been convicted under S. 496 PPC, which has been in the penal code since colonial times

[Fer Ghanaa Ansari @AnsariFer]

One can see just how less the State cares to protect women when women’s rights are arbitrarily harmed on a whim just to achieve political agendas.

The State doesn’t care.

The IK fans now begging for Aurat March support don’t care.

Nobody cares, unless it’s for your pol agenda.