ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported 2,297 cases of violence against women from 25 districts between January and December 2020, according to a recent report by the Aurat Foundation. This number is despite the challenge of under-reporting because of the coronavirus pandemic. The data shows that at the peak of the pandemic in July, cases of violence against […]
A 45-year-old woman was grievously injured after four men allegedly raped her and inserted an iron rod into her private parts in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Saturday night following which the woman has been undergoing treatment in a hospital in neighboring Rewa district; Amiliya police station […]
Years of condemnation on social media and chanting against the nonsensical two-finger test (TFT) at the Aurat March has finally given the women of Pakistan something to celebrate. The Lahore High Court’s (LHC’s) Justice Ayesha A Malik on January 4, 2021 passed a 30-page detailed judgment against the TFT. Declaring it an old practice of […]
The Lahore High Court ruled on Monday that the two-finger and hymen tests of rape survivors were “illegal and unconstitutional”. The verdict announced by LHC judge Justice Ayesha A Malik in a petition challenging the virginity tests of rape survivors. The 30-page verdict stated that the testing methods were “unscientific having no medical basis; therefore […]
An Ethiopian refugee who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said on Wednesday. According to a local news agency, that man was initially questioned by Italian carabinieri over Gudeta’s death but was found to have no […]
President Dr. Arif Alvi approved the Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 that will ensure speedy trial of rape cases; with women and children as victims and will also allow for chemical castration of those convicted of such offenses. A statement issued by the President House said that under the ordinance; special courts would establish throughout the country […]
In an appalling development reported Tuesday from Punjab’s Sargodha district to agitate the last vestige of humanity, a landlord allegedly sexually abused and murdered an eight-year-old girl. According to the local police, the heinous act took place in Qasba Lalliani area, in the suburbs of Bhalwal, where the body of the minor was recovered from. […]
A 30-year-old woman was gang-raped and threatened in the parking space of Baba Saheb Ambedkar (BSA) Hospital in outer Delhi’s Rohini, allegedly by a security guard and two former bouncers of the hospital early Friday morning, the police said. The two bouncers were arrested early while the security guard was caught Monday. All three had […]
A man sexually assaulted a seven-year-old boy in Parmuli village of Razaar tehsil here on Monday. Parmuli police station officials said the accused took the boy to an abandoned plot when he was returning from school and assaulted him. The boy’s father registered an FIR against the culprit. FIR stated that they belonged to Gujjar […]
Fifteen men have been accused of gang-raping and filming two teenage sisters, according to reports. A complaint has been filed on behalf of the victims’ mother. She states that her two daughters, one aged 17 years old and the other 15, were kidnapped on September 11 by a group of persons. She said that her […]
