report in The Daily Star, Mar 1, 2023A total of 232 women and girls faced violence in February this year, found a report prepared by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad. Of them, 40 females, including 24 girls, were raped, according to the organisation’s media-monitoring report. Seven females, including three girls, were gang-raped, one was killed after rape, and two girls died by suicide after rape during this period. Attempts have also been made to rape a total…
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Whenever there is an incident of sexual assault or gender-based violence in Pakistan, we often end up with two tragedies for the price of one. First, there is the crime itself. Time and again, mostly, women who have the temerity to walk around in parks, go to work, school or just literally step out of their homes fall prey to the most brutal form of victimization imaginable. We are reminded, in the unlikely event that…
By Attiya Munawer in Pakistan Today, Jan 8, 2023Terrorism is the indiscriminate or disproportionate use of violence against civilian targets, a product of modernity and a globalization of the wrong meaning of ‘jihadism’ that shows no signs of abating. This idea terrorism is on the rise again in Pakistan and state institutions are very active in dealing with it, but the ongoing political and economic instability in the country is also a major obstacle to…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Dec 27, 2022About 497 Sri Lankans have been killed in violence during the first 11 months of 2022, according to crime statistics released by the police. Out of them, 223 deaths were caused by shooting and assault. About 3,596 instances of kidnappings with the intention of collecting ransoms have been recorded. This is a 2,800 percent increase from the same period last year, when there were only 835 such…
report in Nepalnews.com, Nov 30, 2022 at 20:06hrsKATHMANDU: A study report on ‘online violence against women journalists’ shows that 88.6 per cent women journalists experienced violence in their life. The study was conducted from May to August 31, 2022. The study conducted among 281 women journalists working in print, electronic and online media had such findings. Out of 281 participants, 116 women journalists said they faced online violence from their colleagues, 89 from those out…
Editorial in Dawn, November 29th, 2022LAST weekend, quite remarkably, passed without incident. PTI chairman Imran Khan was able to conclude his long march peacefully, with a final show of power. He seems to have realised that there was little need for him to march into Islamabad for a confrontation with the PDM government, which in all likelihood would have entailed violence and clashes between his supporters and the police. Instead, he played politics with the…
Report in The Daiy Star,12 Oct 2022The BNP is set to hold its first divisional meeting in Chattogram city today amid warning from the local Awami League that it would resist any violence in the name of political programmes. Leaders of the opposition party said they would hold a “historic” rally in the port city’s Polo ground with the participation of tens of thousands of leaders and activists. The rally is the first of 10…