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June 03,2007
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Collection of articles on women's rights issues

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November 19,2006
Pakistan votes to amend rape laws

Pakistan's national assembly has voted to amend the country's strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery.

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June 11,2006
Dast-e-Shafqat

LivingEducation is a Pakistani-Swiss Non Profit Organization that runs different social projects in Pakistan in order to create new life perspectives for the most marginalized people. All projects and services are free of charge. The projects are financed by private donations. By the name Dast-e-Shafqat, LivingEducation has now started a new project for women.

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Introduction

Background

Violence against women and particularly domestic violence is widespread in Pakistan. It has its roots in the conviction of many men that women are their property and obliged to fulfill men’s needs and wants without question and without fail. In the Pakistani society, a woman normally has a subordinate and dependent position to men. There is little tolerance for any deviation in the traditional female role.

A high number of girls and women are traded like goods to settle disputes and debts. Every day about four women are murdered for ‘honor’. ‘Honor killings’ are carried out by men who assume that their female family member has in some way contravened social norms or showed immoral behavior and thereby damaged the man’s honor. Very often the grounds for such assumptions are weak and a suspicion of unfaithfulness or immoral behavior can lead to murder.

Several laws are extremely discriminatory against girls and women and promote impunity of men who commit crimes against women, such as rape.