This paper prepared by the Asia Legal Resource Center and featured in the newsletter "Human Rights Solidarity", highlights systematic violations of women's human rights in Burma, India and Pakistan. The paper begins by noting that substantive gender equality goals of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, have generally not been realized, and, in spite of efforts by some, women continue to be barred from equal participation in society. The paper looks at the abuse and discrimination many women still face by virtue of their sex.