Coverage of Women Issues in Sindhi Newspapers of Pakistan

Abstract

Women issues are the most extensively increasing issue not only in Pakistan but globally as well. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (2020) women, related issues become higher in the country each year. The issues of women became serious, which need to resolve. With time, women's issues are now a critical matter, particularly in Pakistan. Therefore, the goal of the study is to interrogate the coverage of women's issues concerning the violation of fundamental rights in Sindhi newspapers of the country. For data accumulation, three Sindhi language dailies, Kawish, Ibrat, and Hilal-e-Pakistan, were drawn from 1st January 2018 to 30 June 2018 as a sample size. The quantitative content analysis method has been employed. The findings reveal that the Sindhi language newspapers report satisfactory coverage concern to the issues of women in Sindh province of Pakistan. In contrast to this finding, these newspapers have frequently reported the issues of violence against women as compared to education, health, and property-related matters of women.

Keywords

• women issues
• women rights
• violence against women
• sindhi newspapers

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