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.

For more information and to inquire about the opportunity to be a part of this research and dissemination of awareness

and

If you or you know someone who needs help in immigration matters and has been a victim of any form of gender based persecution please contact

LAW OFFFICE OF HUMA KAMGAR, ESQ.,
305 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10007
212-323-6887

please visit : www.asylumanddeportation.com
 

President Obama issued an Executive Order on Preventing and Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls Globally.

In august 2012, President Obama publicly showed his support to continue the struggle to stop violence against women by issuance of an Executive Order.  The Executive Order requires enhanced coordination of the United States’ efforts through the creation of an interagency working group, co-chaired by Secretary of State Clinton and USAID Administrator Shah, designed to leverage our country’s tremendous expertise and capacity to prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally as well as establish a coordinated, government-wide approach to address this terrible reality.
The Executive Order directs Federal agencies to implement a new strategy, developed by USAID and the State Department. The four objectives of the strategy to prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally are to: (1) increase coordination of gender-based violence prevention and response efforts among United States Government agencies and with other stakeholders; (2) enhance integration of gender-based violence prevention and response efforts into existing United States Government work; (3) improve collection, analysis, and use of data and research to enhance gender-based violence prevention, and response efforts; and (4) enhance and expand United States Government programming that addresses gender-based violence.
The Executive Order also requires that the work is evaluated in line with the Administration’s focus on data collection and research. Recognizing that this is a long-term commitment, the Executive Order directs the interagency working group to update or revise the strategy after three years.
Our commitment to ending violence against women and girls is both a foreign policy priority and a domestic policy priority. The United States has made tremendous progress on violence against women and girls domestically since the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994. Since the passage of the Act, annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by more than 60 percent.

 Thanks for reading.

HUMA KAMGAR ESQ.,