Pakistani Feminist Judgments Project

PFJP aims to write alternative judgments for Supreme Court cases, from a feminist legal perspective.

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Had the opportunity to present some of our work on the @PAKFJP during the session on “Sex, Gender, and State”. I discussed how, even without formal legislative change, we can interpret and enforce laws in a feminist, egalitarian manner.

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Click below to watch PFJP's co-founder @OrubahA, in conversation with @theqanoondan, shedding light on the Project's aims and objectives.

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Interview of Ms. Orubah Sattar Ahmed, Founder of Pakistan Feminist Judgments Project https://t.co/wxRP1hH8GX

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Another compelling proposal to reform the judicial appointment procedure is this white paper that suggests: public releases of candidate interviews held by the JC, granting preference to candidates that enhance diversity, alongside many others.

https://t.co/60mHDkMbN4

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The PFJP congratulates Justice Ayesha Malik on the approval of her appointment as Pakistan’s first female Supreme Court Judge. We're hopeful that the Parliamentary Committee will approve her appointment as well, making her the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan

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@WomenInLawPk have put forward multiple proposals to help achieve more transparent and inclusive judicial appointments. Their suggestions include the introduction of an Applications Based Model and for a wider pool of candidates to be considered, amongst others,

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However, in her work on ecofeminism, Dr. Chaone Mallory says that when one hunts, one accepts principle of human domination over the nonhuman world. Hunting and Morality Hunting is the seeking out of an animal in its natural habitat for the intent and purpose of taking its life.

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Eco-feminism is another truly invigorating topic that the PFJP has and continues to work on, therefore, for this week we want to shed more light on a concept rarely discussed in Pakistan- or South Asia at large,

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The male perspective on hunting and environmental ethics is told in Aldo Leopold's writing. He says, hunting helps cultivate high moral character, it is done to collect trophies, like a bird’s egg/deer carcass which signify man’s superior and active relationship with land,