{"id":71999,"date":"2025-05-27T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/27\/pakistan-sends-important-signal-of-hope-in-a-gloomy-world-of-pushbacks-on-womens-rights-child-marriage-ban-islamabad"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:00:19","slug":"pakistan-sends-important-signal-of-hope-in-a-gloomy-world-of-pushbacks-on-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71999","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan sends \u2018important signal\u2019 of hope in a gloomy world of pushbacks on women\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Islamabad has moved to ban child marriage, which politicians say is a mark of the country bucking global trends to stand behind its women<\/p>\n<p>During last week\u2019s tense debate over whether the Pakistan senate should pass a bill banning child marriage, Naseema Ehsan stood up to speak. \u201cI got married at 13 years old and I want child marriage to be banned,\u201d said the 50-year-old senator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was lucky to have good and affluent in-laws but most Pakistani women are not so lucky. Not every child has a supportive husband like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/27\/pakistan-sends-important-signal-of-hope-in-a-gloomy-world-of-pushbacks-on-womens-rights-child-marriage-ban-islamabad\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Islamabad has moved to ban child marriage, which politicians say is a mark of the country bucking global trends to stand behind its womenDuring last week\u2019s tense debate over whether the Pakistan senate should pass a bill banning child marri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1671,59,60,79,61,281,1792,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-marriage","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-health","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72000,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71999\/revisions\/72000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}