OKARA: A BA student allegedly gang-raped by four men in Punjab’s Ahmedabad city, ARY News reported on Friday. The victim’s mother in her statement said that a boy named Muzammil tricked her daughter into marriage. She accused Muzammil of raping her ...
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KARACHI: Some 437 female police officers of the Sindh Police have been trained in different ‘capacity building courses’, including 46 in gender-based violence courses to get substantial results of the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Act 2021. As per the official ...
Read More »Chitrali women going through depression due to social problems
CHITRAL: Women in Chitral are going through depression due to a host of social problems, said rights activists on Thursday. In a series of community sessions participated by women activists in Garam Chashma, Chitral and Drosh towns of Lower Chitral ...
Read More »SHC laments police, prosecution treating gender-based violence cases casually
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday took exception to casual treatment of gender-based violence cases by the investigation and prosecution and observed that the provincial government and police must make all efforts to increase its capacity in investigation and ...
Read More »‘Preventing violence against women without engaging men impossible’
Islamabad : UN Women and the Embassy of Sweden organized an Award Ceremony titled, “2021 in Retrospective Celebrating Actions to End Violence Against Women” during 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. The aim of the award ceremony was ...
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