In 2013--- 869 women were killed in the name of honour. More than 800 women committed suicide in 2013. Only 18.3% women had secondary or higher level of education-- and only 28% were formally counted in the workforce. At least 56 women were killed solely for giving birth to a girl child. There were only 560 women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s 60,000-strong police force. In Punjab, only 9 out of 146 SPs were women. Out of 474 DSPs in Punjab, only 35 were women. Moreover 2,576 rape cases were reported from Punjab. 1,204 children became victims of physical violence in Pakistan from January to June 2013. Of these children, 817 victims (67.86%) were girls while 387 were boys (32.14%). Punjab had the highest number of cases at 810, followed by Sindh with 226, Balochistan with 44, KP with 37, Islamabad Capital Territory with 71, Azad Jammu and Kashmir with 14, and Gilgit Baltistan with two cases. Child abduction and rape were the two main forms of abuse suffered by children( Human Rights Commission Report)
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:30:02 +0000
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