A Context-Sensitive Approach to Immigrant Pakistani Women’s Rights in Norway

Abstract

This paper discusses how a Norwegian non-Governmental organization (NGO) uses a context-sensitive approach to protect and promote human rights of immigrant women in the country. Their rights are violated through domestic violence, and as a consequence, some of the them run away to crisis centers. To elaborate the NGO’s work, the paper discusses a Norwegian-Pakistani forced marriage case that was processed by this NGO. The paper thus presents a dynamic interface of law, culture and transnational family relations within which the NGO has to strive for women’s rights.