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标题：Bill on women's rights
作者：Karen Ann Gajewski
期刊名称：Humanist
印刷版ISSN：0018-7399
电子版ISSN：2163-3576
出版年度：2004
卷号：May-June 2004
出版社：American Humanist Association

Bill on women's rights

Karen Ann Gajewski

A long-awaited and controversial bill on women's rights has been presented before Pakistan's National Assembly. The bill aims to abolish discriminatory laws against women--including the custom whereby a woman who marries outside a tribe or clan can be killed by the family in the name of honor, and the Islamic Hudood ordinance that fails to separate rape from adultery. The latter is more contentious, as conservatives argue its abolition would be "un-Islamic."