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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Honour Killings, Violence Claimed Lives of 66 Women in the Month of July in Sindh

RDHR‘s cell for Women Rights issued one month report on killing.
Research and Development for Human Resources (RDHR) sindh, using newspapers gathered data on violence against women, during the time period from 1st June to 31 July 2010. Women are being victims in our society through many ways, amongst all honor killings and domestic violence are frequent in different parts of sindh province and these violence have claimed the lives of 66 women in the month of July. Out of 66 women, 26 women lost their lives under the blame of honor killings, while 40 were killed in the domestic violence.
26 women were killed under honor killings out of which 6 women were killed in Jacobabad, 5 in Ghotki, 3 in Shikarpur, 2 in Larkana, Banzirabad, Dadu, Sukkur, and Mirpurkhas and one in Kashmor and khair pur mir’s respectively.
In domestic violence, 40 women were killed, including 6 in Karachi, each 5 in Ghotki and khairpur mir’s , 4 in Larkana, 2 each in Jacobabad, Sukkur, Jamshoro, Banazirabad, Sanghar, Hyderabad and Badin and one each in Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Thatta, Dadu, Shahdadkot and Shikarpur..

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