Women in Pakistan - Crimes Against Women

Crimes Against Women

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Violence
against women
Issues
  • Acid throwing
  • Breast ironing
  • Bride burning
  • Dating violence
  • Domestic violence
  • Dowry death
  • Honor killing
  • Female genital mutilation
    • Gishiri cutting
    • Infibulation
  • Foot binding
  • Forced abortion
  • Forced pregnancy
  • Forced prostitution
  • Human trafficking
  • Marital rape
  • Murder of pregnant women
  • Rape
  • Pregnancy from rape
  • Sati
  • Sexual slavery
  • Sexual violence
  • Violence against prostitutes
Other
  • Outline of domestic violence

The violence against women in Pakistan is a major problem. Feminists and women's groups in Pakistan have criticised the Pakistani government and its leaders for whitewashing the persecution of women and trying to suppress information about their plight in the international arena. Skepticism and biased attitudes against women's complaints of violence are common among prosecutors, police officers and medicolegal doctors in Pakistan. According to reports from 1990s, such complaints often face delayed/mishandled processing and inadequate/improper investigations.

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