Washington, D.C. – Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) applauds the Pakistan appointment of Justice Ayesha Malik as its first female Supreme Court judge in history.
The South Asian country has a long history of men in leadership in every career and facet of the nation. Until Justice Malik was appointed to serve alongside 16 of her male counterparts, Pakistan remained the only South Asian country not to have a female Supreme Court judge. According to Human Rights Watch, “only about 4 percent of Pakistan’s High Court judges are women. Of the 3,005 Pakistani judges in the lower and higher courts, only 519 – or 17 percent – are women.”
