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37 J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 135 (2010)
Women's Rights = Human Rights: Pakistani Women against Gender Violence

handle is hein.journals/jrlsasw37 and id is 319 raw text is: Women's Rights=Human Rights: Pakistani Women against Gender Violence FILOMENA M. CRITELLI University at Buffalo School of Social Work Gender-based violence constitutes a major public health risk and is a serious violation of basic human rights throughout the world. Counter to many Western images of Muslim women as passive victims, women's groups in Pakistan have begun to or- ganize to respond to these conditions. This study is based upon in-depth interviews conducted with the founders and senior staff of Dastak (Knock on the Door), a shelter for women in Lahore, Pakistan that uses a human rights framework to provide servic- es and advocate for public support for women's rights to safety and security. The study explores how Pakistani women are taking action against violence within their social, cultural and politi- cal reality and analyzes how the of human rights approach has been applied in a non-Western, Muslim, developing country. Key words: gender violence, human rights, women's rights, Paki- stan, international social work Gender-based violence constitutes a major public health risk and has been determined to be a serious violation of basic human rights throughout the world (World Health Organization [WHO], 2005; Amnesty International, 1999, 2002). The urgent need to address this problem because of its toll on the physical and mental health of women world- wide has been recognized by various international organiza- tions (UNDP, 2006; WHO, 2005; United Nations Population Fund, 2000). The Fourth World Conference for Women held in Beijing in 1995 recognized violence against women as a serious Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, June 2010, Volume XXXVII, Number 2 135

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