Tag: Sexual Violence

AGHS held a capacity-building workshop on anti-rape laws, which was attended by over 30 police officials, including GBV investigating officers. In over 15 training workshops, more than 300 officials including judges, prosecutors and police officers have been trained about anti-rape laws since January 2022.

Mobina Town police on Thursday registered a case under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act against a man accused of murdering his wife and boiling her body in a pot in Karachi's Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Wednesday.

An Australian-Pakistani woman, Sajida Tasneem, was reportedly axed to death by her father-in-law for insisting on going back to Australia for better education of her three children.

Mianwali police have arrested a man accused of murdering his 7-day-old daughter. The accused had shot & killed her daughter because he wanted a son.

Speaking on the lack of implementation of rape laws, panelists at the Asma Jahangir Conference 2021 – Challenges to Human Dignity held that there is a need to recontextualize rape as an exercise in power rather than simply a sexual crime, and called for removal of hurdles to implementation of existing anti-rape laws.

An Islamabad court rejected the post-arrest bail pleas of two domestic workers facing charges of abetting Zahir Jaffer in Noor Mukadam’s murder. The court also rejected the request of Therapy Works' CEO to register a criminal case against Jaffer

Family and friends of the slain Noor Mukadam held a peaceful demonstration outside the IHC against the pre-arrest bail of prime accused Zahir Jaffer's abettors.

A seminary teacher in Toba Tek Singh’s Gojra tehsil has been arrested on charges of dousing petrol on a 10-year-old boy and setting him aflame. Qari Abdul Rehman had set aflame the child after failing in his attempt to sexually molest him.

July 23, 2021; By Zeenat Shehzadi; FAISALABAD; A 15-year-old girl has been gang-raped and filmed in front of her minor sister in Toba Tek Singh. Suspects held for gang-raping, filming teen in front of minor sister.

The body of 4 y/o Hareem Fatima was discovered in a drainage ditch in the Khattak Colony area of Kohat this morning. A preliminary examination indicated she had been raped before being murdered. For more stories on rights violations of women and children, keep reading.