International: International Campaign Against Honour Killings
Posted by Ginger on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 (12:56:46) (866 reads)

Over 5000 women and girls are killed every year by family members in so-called 'honour killings', according to the UN. These crimes occur where cultures believe that a woman's unsanctioned sexual behaviour brings such shame on the family that any female accused or suspected must be murdered. Reasons for these murders can be as trivial as talking to a man, or as innocent as suffering rape.

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Pakistan: Various incidences of violence against women
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Monday, August 25, 2008 (09:50:16) (52 reads)

HAFIZABAD: A Wapda employee killed his sister and injured two others over a marriage concern at Kakshal village on Wednesday. Iftikhar Ahmad had a divergence over the Nikkah of his sisters. On the day of the event, he quarreled with the parents on the issue. Later, he allegedly opened fire at his sisters. As a consequence, his sister Rukhsana was killed on the spot while another sister and his brother's wife Fouzia, were critically injured. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital. The police have arrested the offenders after filing a case.

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Afghanistan: Afghan President pardons men convicted of bayonet gang rape
Posted by Kawthar on Monday, August 25, 2008 (09:41:50) (67 reads)

The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has pardoned three men who had been found guilty of gang raping a woman in the northern province of Samangan.

The woman, Sara, and her family found out about the pardon only when they saw the rapists back in their village.

“Everyone was shocked,” said Sara’s husband, Dilawar, who like many Afghans uses only one name. “These were men who had been sentenced and found guilty by the Supreme Court, walking around freely.”

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Pakistan: Minister denies brother's involvement in the live burial of five women
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Monday, August 25, 2008 (09:34:37) (78 reads)

ISLAMABAD: Three teenage girls along with their two close elderly relatives were shot at before being buried alive in a desert of Balochistan by their tribesmen in the name of honour.

The shocking reports of this horrible incident reaching the capital from different quarters revealed that the girls studying in classes 10 to 12 intended to marry men of their choice through a civil court by defying the centuries-old tribal traditions. When the fuming elders of Umrani tribe came to know about the intentions of these girls to appear before a local court, they picked them up from their homes along with two of their elderly women relatives. The crying girls were pushed into official cars and driven to a deserted area. There they were pushed out of the cars, made to stand in a queue and volleys of shots fired at them.

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Pakistan: Two women killed by extremists
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Thursday, August 21, 2008 (07:09:58) (96 reads)

PESHAWAR: Unidentified criminals, who claimed to be members of the Bajaur-based Jaish-e-Islami, a hardliner group, killed two women and mutilated their bodies before throwing them in the suburban village of Naguman on Charsadda road of volatile Frontier province of Pakistan on Wednesday.

A letter was found lying near the corpse of the younger woman, who seemed to be in her 20s and whose body was mutilated and her face disfigured. The killers, who in the letter claimed to be members of the Bajaur-based militant group, claimed the two were involved in prostitution.

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Pakistan: Rays of Development despatch
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (21:49:02) (70 reads)

OKARRA: The daughter of the superintendent of police was allegedly shot dead by her in-laws in Beerbal village, Okara. Sobia, daughter of Bahawalpur special branch SP Rao Saleem Akhtar, was wedded to Rao Imran. She was living with her children in Lahore on the day of the occurrence, she visited the house of her in-laws and she was shot dead in the washroom.

On the report of Sobia's brother Fazeel Akhtar, the police have lodged a case against her husband Imran, mother-in-law Bilqees Bibi, brother-in-law Amir and his wife Maliha Bibi. Fazeel Akhtar said Imran has acknowledged to the crime and sought apology from him. However, Imran denied the charges and said that Sobia committed suicide. He assumed that he ran towards the washroom after hearing a gun shot and found her dead. DPO Ihsan Saddique, DSP Investigation Chaudhry Mohammad Zulfiqar and DSP City Mohammad Younas reached the spot and sent the body to mortuary for an autopsy.

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Pakistan: Woman killed for working outside the home
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (21:44:03) (125 reads)

SARGODHA: A sister was slaughtered by two brothers because she refused to give up her job. In Chak No 88 NB, Sargodha, NaziaMasih, the daughter of Ashraf Masih, was a Lady Health Visitor (LHV) in the district hospital. Her two brothers had doubted her virtue. They believed that she had a physical relation with some unknown man and thought that due to her work she might become involved in prostitution. Due to this, her two brothers Munawar Masih and Nasir Masih first of all tried to stop her through coercion but when this failed they butchered her with knives.

[Warning: Disturbing picture below the fold]

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Israel: Woman beaten and threatened with death for divorce
Posted by DianaNammi on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 (09:33:42) (100 reads)

Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'

A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships with men, an indictment filed Thursday by the Jerusalem Prosecution reveals.

According to the indictment, 29-year-old Elhanan Buzaglo and six other men forced their way into the woman's apartment in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Maalot Dafna several months ago. The Prosecution says that the woman once belonged to the ultra-Orthodox community, but abandoned that life after her divorce in 2005.

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Pakistan: Man and woman killed in separate incidents
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Monday, August 18, 2008 (21:45:30) (89 reads)

SHOR KOT: In Chak No 12D four armed men opened fire on a man and killed him, suspecting him to have illicit relations with their sister.

According to our sources Saleem, Azeem, Younas and Shokat believed that Muhammad Asif son of Rub Nawaz have illicit relations with their sister.

On the day of this incident Muhammad Asif was coming back to his home after meeting his relatives, the four criminals who were hiding in his way stopped him on the road and fired a bullet at him and ran away. Shor Kot Police Station has registered a case against the criminals on the request of the father of the victim.

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Pakistan: Cruelty meets beauty for Pakistan burn victims
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Monday, August 18, 2008 (21:26:54) (133 reads)

Cruelty meets beauty for Pakistan burn victimsLAHORE, Pakistan - Saira Liaqat squints through her one good eye as she brushes a woman's hair. Her face, most of which the acid melted years ago, occasionally lights up with a smile. Her hands, largely undamaged, deftly handle the dark brown locks.

A few steps away in this popular beauty salon, Urooj Akbar diligently trims, cleans and paints clients' fingernails. Her face, severely scarred from the blaze that burned some 70 percent of her body, is somber. It's hard to tell if she's sad or if it's just the way she now looks.

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