Rape, Law and Third Gender in Pakistan

This book analyses the rape law of Pakistan pertaining to transgender people of the Country. While critically evaluating the Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, 2020 and the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Ordinance, 2020 along with other laws on rape, gender equality and human rights in Pakistan, this book sketches the latest position of Pakistan in terms of protecting its transgender community against rape offences. Keeping international human rights standards as a vantage point, this book investigates how far or close the current rape law of Pakistan is to the same. The author has made effort to dissect the law of Pakistan on rape offence and view each component of it with the lens of gender neutrality.The book concludes with a bunch of recommendations and way forward on mainstreaming the transgender community of Pakistan in the criminal law and justice framework of the Country.