Tag: gender based violence
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM: A Digital Murder – How Fake Pictures In An Okara...
The tragic story of how a woman’s pictures were deep-faked into sexually graphic images and made viral in her village leading to her suicide
‘I cut my daughter’s hair so we could move around freely: Afghan woman tells...
Spesali Zazai belongs to Afghanistan but migrated to Pakistan when the Taliban took over her country. After the death of her husband, she was left to bring up three daughters alone.
Rights Watch | 26th August 2022
A resident of Muslim Town in Rawalpindi informed police that she had been gang-raped at gunpoint by three men after a suitor lured her on the promise of marriage. In the second incident, a widowed mother of three was gang-raped by four men in Daska, Sialokot.
Rights Watch | 25th August 2022
On Wednesday, a resident of Sheen Bagh in Attock allegedly raped his teen daughter when his wife and other children were not at home. A medical examination of the girl confirmed sexual assault. For more stories, keep reading.
Haripur brothers shoot dead sister, cousin over ‘honour’
In another gruesome honour killing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, two brothers have shot dead their sister and maternal cousin over suspicion of illicit relations in Haripur.
“Political will to curb gender-based crimes lacking”
In a roundtable discussion organized by the YGA, stakeholders presented remedies to existing lacunae in the criminal justice system, and urged authorities to take an active approach to ending gender-based crimes.
3 people arrested over ‘honour’ attack on Jhang cop
Jhang police have arrested three people in connection with a gruesome attack on a constable who was accused of coercing a married woman and leaking her intimate videos on social media.
Rights Watch | 20th July 2022
An American woman was allegedly gang-raped by her tour guide and his two accomplices at Fort Munro in Dera Ghazi Khan on July 17. Two including the prime suspect have been arrested so far.
Rights Watch | 18th July 2022
A-Division police on Sunday arrested a motorcyclist who made sexually explicit gestures at a woman traveling via rickshaw after the victim uploaded a video of the incident to social media.
Rights Watch | 16th July 2022
Police on Friday arrested one Obaidullah for killing his four-year-old daughter some days ago. The suspect told police he suspected she was an illegitimate child as she was born premature