Examples of gender -based persecution of women in Pakistan.

GENDER BASED PERSECUTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN PAKISTAN.

Fourteen years old girl shot in the head at close range by the Pakistan Talibans because she wants to go to school!!!! instead she goes to the hospital with brain damage.

     I AM MALALA

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57530331/malala-yousufzais-brain-damaged-in-taliban-attack-in-pakistan-surgeon-says/

http://cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/10/10/sayah-2011-interview-malala-yousufzai.cnn


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Eleven year old christian girl with learning disabilities accused by Muslim IMAM for burning Quran????? and be sentenced to death?
 


I AM RIMSHA






The girl, known as Rimsha, was arrested on 16 August on charges of blasphemy


http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/2012/10/12/pakistan-christian-teen-accused-blasphemy/fbDGOSRVymBR7XeT6zMjHP/story.html

http://rt.com/news/pakistan-jail-christian-girl-593/

http://www.christianpost.com/news/detention-of-pakistani-christian-girl-extended-in-blasphemy-case-80894/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19397884



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Asiya Bibi, 45, A Christian woman in Pakistan sentenced to death in blasphemy case








        I AM ASIYA


http://linenonthehedgerow.blogspot.com/2010/12/kill-asia-bibi-call.html

http://www.amenews.org/AppealforAsia.htm

http://blog.proofdirectory.org/2012/09/asia-bibi/



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Battle of christian Woman Hanifan Bibi, 37, in pakistan for religious freedom.


I AM HANIFAN BIBI






http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Faisalabad,-the-battle-of-a-Christian-woman-for-her-family-and-religious-freedom-24386.html


http://www.persecution.org/2012/03/31/pakistan-christian-woman-fights-for-her-family-and-her-religious-freedom/


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Julie Aftab, 16 years old Christian Woman Burned With Acid In Pakistan.,

 

I AM JULIE

 

 

http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000018571

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/julie-aftab-woman-feels-closer-to-god-after-acid-attack_n_1665112.html

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/an-insult-to-islam-pakistani-acid-attack-victim-describes-horrific-assault-she-faced-over-her-christian-faith/


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Honor killing of girls as a form of extreme gender based persecution
Honour killings belong to a group of violent crimes that primarily target women,

I AM SHAFILEA AHMED
and I did not want to marry my first cousin.


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/honor-killing-pakistani-parents-found-guilty-of-suffocating-teenage-daughter-who-refused-forced-marriage-to-her-1st-cousin/

http://theweek.com/article/index/225998/pakistans-escalating-honor-killing-problem


http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/world/asia/pakistan-honor-confession/index.html






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Honor Killing: Pakistani Man kills his “Six Daughters” for Honor

http://khap-honorkilling.blogspot.com/2011/07/honor-killing-pakistani-man-kills-his.html

http://www.aquila-style.com/focus-points/honour-killings/

Beheaded womem killed for family honor

Preparation for stoning

http://tristanatwood.wordpress.com/how-valuable-is-family-honor/


Amputating the woman or girl's nose as a form of punishment in Pakistan for women.




http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/2625


Rape, Mutilation: Pakistan's
Tribal Justice for Women

http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/2625








http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/454117.stm



Honour killing can be defined as a form of extreme status anxiety and a manifestation of a culture of male domination and sexual repression

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Even muslim women are not spared from acid attacks to mutilate their faces when they seek basic human rights.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17676542

I AM FAKHRA YOUNUS

Before and after the acid attack

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/acid-attack-survivor-pakistan-photo.html

Acid Attack Victim Fakhra Yunus Commits Suicide

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/victim-acid-attack-commits-suicide/story?id=16011971






This is just a small compilation of the research work conducted by Attorney Huma Kamgar to help the women victims of various forms of extreme and inhuman abuses and persecution simply because of their gender as a woman or girl.

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