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However there are many organizations which are claims that they are working for the rights of women even every one claims to give respect and status to women but in practical life everything is against even we thinks that today these people are more responsible for this. They propaganda for the rights of women because their practical approach and method cannot solve the problems of women rather they create new problems which affects the system of respect and prosperity of women because the claimers are rights of women have their own self imposed. They thinks that what we are do and what we are doing the entire world should follow us although it is against the human resource.

It is the basic right of human being that according to law they can freely live in the atmosphere and culture they want. We thinks that every society has its own culture, which belongs to their own living, and if they are broken new beautiful culture will make but the old culture will defiantly be removed. We realize that the nations have some traditions, which are the beauty of the land. Sewa organization will not only wants to rescue these atmosphere but to remove the behavior of ignorance but to make them more beautiful so that the belonging people will not only feel proud but thinks that they are the part of that beautiful society.

Sewa organization not only wants to make women respectfully personality but to make then so much illiterate that they plays a distinct role in making an illiterate society. The main object of the Sewa organization is that keeping in mind the culture of women and to provide them modern educational facilities, which is their right, and we realize that this is the human resource and thesurvival of mankind is also in it 

 

What kind problems women facing in Pakistan! 

Honor killings (Karo Kari)

Honor killing or karo kari, a traditional, feudal custom which still continues whereby couples found in, or more often merely suspected of, adulterous relationship are summarily done to death by the family members themselves.

The law takes a lenient view of this 'crime of honor', which often leads it to be abused.
According to a report by amnesty international released on June 15,2000, several hundred women and girls die each year in so-called 'honor killings' in Pakistan, in a backdrop to government inaction.

In its 'Dimensions of violence' report released in January 2000,the HRCP found that in
an 11-month period up to November 1999, at least 266 women had been victims of 'honor killings' in and around Lahore alone.

Certainly, there seemed to be no improvement in past patterns during the year 2000, with a newspaper reporting a total of 407 murders of women in the Punjab by June 2000' of these killings, 168 were stated in the FIR to be motivated by 'honor', while another 109 were committed by a close relative of the woman, with police citing a suspected 'honor' killing.

Still more alarmingly, newspapers stated that by April 20,2000,117 lives, including those of 93 women, had been lost since the start of the year in sindh as a result of killings attributed to 'Karo Kari'. The sindh police reported the death of a total of 246 women the previous year as a result of such murders for 'honor' though activists in the province maintained this figure was grossly understated.

Hundreds of 'honor' killings, especially in the tribal areas of the North, are believed to go unreported each year, as a result of social connivance often involving the district administration, which results in a failure to report such murders to police.

Woman Murder

Women are also killed by means other than burning, with motives often linked to dispute involving their families, or in some cases an effort to protect themselves. Over 2,000 women, including minors, are estimated to have been killed over the year 2000 across the country, though no precise figures are available.

Early in the year, two women were gunned down in pari village in Sukkur, as a result of a property dispute involving male members of their families.
In other incidents, women died while attempting to save themselves against rape. Tahira,5 was strangled to death in the Garden Town area of Lahore in September while trying to protect her elder sister from rape by two sons of the house owner who had broken into the premises.

In other cases, deaths have occurred during dacoity or been inflicted by family members as an outcome of crime. An especially alarming case came to light in Islamabad, towards the end of the year 2000. A middle-aged woman, the mother of five children, was found to have been tortured by electric shock and then murdered in her home. Her husband initially tried to pass off the death as 'accidental' but police investigations discovered her adult son, Imtiaz, had first subjected her to torture and then murdered her before taking away her jewellery. His father had attempted to cover up his crime.

Rape

The HRCP found a sharp rise in cases of rape over the decade, with estimates suggesting one woman was raped every two hours somewhere in the country as against one every three hours at the start of the 1990s

Other reports suggested the figure could be far higher, given that many instances rape are never reported as a result of social pressure. Incidents of abusive incest and rape within marriage are also said to be common, though they remain almost completely hidden from the public arena.

According to the newspaper report in August, 118 reported incidents of rape had taken place in Lahore alone during the year 2000 by the end of July. These included the rape of minor girls. Alarmingly, there was a distinct upward turn in the trend, with 46 cases reported till April and others taking place in the remaining four months till July. In an increased number of incidents, rape had taken place during robbery bids.
According to a newspaper compilation of cases, by June 2000, over 300 cases of rape had been reported from across the Punjab. 124 involved girls under the age of 15. FIRs had taken been registered in less than quarter of the cases.

Kidnapping

As in the previous years, cases of kidnapping reported to police remained an issue of some controversy, given that a significant number of those involving women were believed to have resulted in fact from an elopement or a decision by The girl to marry against her parents' will. The registering of an FIR for abduction in such cases as indented was a social 'cover-up', pointing to the complexities, which surround so many cases of crimes against women.

This factor however often contributed to police reluctance to register a case, thus leaving many incidents of genuine kidnapping unreported. According to a newspaper report, by June 2000, a total of 337 cases of kidnapping of women had been reported in the Punjab,145 of them of girls aged under 15, only ten recoveries had been made.

Police reluctance to investigate kidnapping cases with urgency resulted in grave dangers to victims in many cases. In March, a middle-aged wife of a deaf and dumb man, kidnapped and subjected to rape by a relative, was rescued in Lahore only after 44 days, though her husband had told police of the address where he believed she was being held.

At least three incidents of the death of women, resulting from maltreatment or grave abuse at the hands of law enforcers, were reported. In May 2000, police from the Qila Gujjar Singh police station in Lahore forcibly entered the home of Bilquis Bibi at 3.00am in the morning, in an effort to detain her husband, who was accused of drug pushing. Bilquis, pregnant at the time, was severely beaten. She died hours later as a direct result during the same month, in Rawalpindi, 15-year-old shamim Akhtar died in custody. She had been held in a Hudood case, and was released from fetters barely a day before her death. Though she had been held in a Hudood case, and was released from fetters barely a day before her death. Though she had remained ill, suffering possibly from tuberculosis, almost no medical help was provided to her. The reason for keeping her in fetters was unclear.

Other incidents of abuse of women detained by police, and involvement of policemen forming a part of gangs engaged in the rape of women during dacoities also continued to come in. Incidents of the rape of women in police custody were also reported.

Molestation and Abuse

Apart from reports of harassment within the workplace, the year 2000 saw an alarming increase in the molestation of women, often in populated, public areas. The incidents suggest a growing 'acceptability' of such offences, with people present at the spot in several cases failing to make even an attempt to intervene.

  • Early in the year, in Islamabad, a shopkeeper in a market assaulted a foreign woman.
  • In May, a gang of canal bathers molested five young Dutch women, walking along the Lahore Canal close to the busy FC College crossing, after they stopped to take photographs. Police declined to act on their complaint, despite pressure from Dutch embassy. The men responsible were rounded up only after a newspaper revealed their identity, and were then released from custody within days
  • A German female tourist was raped in the Chilas area in July after being separated briefly from her companions.
  • Schoolgirls in Karachi reported in October that a traffic policeman while waiting to board a van in the city?s Saddar area had molested them.
  • In April, the family of a young woman held at Lahore's Hospital for Mental Disease reported a staff member had molested her. Though an inquiry was ordered no further details were reported, amidst an apparent effort to cover-up the episode. The concerned staff member was according to newspaper quietly dismissed.

The incidents suggest an alarming increase in harassment and molestation. The apparent targeting of foreign women may in part be a reflection of greater media interest in such incidents. However the commonly held misperception, created in part by increased access to pornography on film and on computer, that foreign women are less likely to object to such assault, appeared at times to have contributed to the incidents.

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