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Junaidj
CANADA
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 Topic initiated on Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 2:47 AM 
Pakistan's taboo on sex abuse
News from Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4017441.stm
A group of Lahore women factory workers complain they are greeted each morning by their bus driver unzipping his trousers.
A university student in Islamabad, Saira, recalls one of her professors: "He would pat our backs, touch our hands whenever possible and stare at us suggestively."
And a woman from Pakistan's most conservative region, North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), discovers that her husband molested her son's wife: "When we all protested, he divorced me and threw me out of his house," she said.
Its figures show that this year between January and August, 175 women including 24 minors were gang raped and 225 were raped, of which 38 were minors.
Ten women were stripped naked publicly - a practice sometimes used to punish women considered to have brought shame on their communities.
These are the forms of extreme sexual abuse. Most cases of sexual harassment go unreported - but some figures suggest cases are increasing.
For example, in 2002, 12 women were stripped in public places - in 2003, the number rose to 40. |
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oosman
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Posted - Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 4:23 PM 
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