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Congress hears testimony that political repression in Pakistan exacerbates women's rights gaps and rolls back protections for gender-diverse people
Summary
Witnesses told the commission that political repression in Pakistan has worsened structural gender inequality, cited low female labor-force participation and rollback of transgender protections, and called for hearings that include testimony from women and gender-diverse Pakistanis.
“The way they are behaving abroad, the way they are behaving internally, it's all correlated,” Sadiq Amini said when describing how political decisions and alignment with the Taliban affected women and gender equality in Pakistan and the region.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici opened a line of questioning noting that Pakistan ranks 145 out of 146 countries on the global gender gap index and that female labor-force participation stands at about…
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