Detail Report Overall Cases of VAW KP Julyto Dec 2011 Final

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Biannual Report

On

Situation of Violence against Women

in

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

July --- December 2011

Prepared by: Shirin Javed

Regional Coordinator

PDM on VAW Project

PDM on VAW AF Peshawar Page 1


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Introduction:

The rights, needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls are sometimes overlooked.

The subject of GBV or VAW is a sensitive one in most societies. In Pakistan,

gender-based violence is particularly sensitive and rarely discussed .There is a

great need to recognize that GBV is on rise in our country and people specially

women need survivor-centered response services.

Violence nullifies the enjoyment of life from women. All over the world and even in

developed societies women and girls are facing different forms of violence. GBV is

not restricted to any class or religion and it is present in the patriarchal society of

Pakistan. In this society the power lies with men and they dictate the life style of

women not only at house hold level but at community and policy level.

Many form of violence is not even considered violence against women. Gender

inequalities pave way for violence against women and insufficient laws to protect

women also aggregate the situation.

Improvement in laws and institutions is necessary for ending violence, but positive

change is also needed in the ways that individuals perceive of and behave towards

one another and themselves

Government is now working to make life of women easy and free of violence .

Women parliamentarians have taken bold initiatives to work for women issues .They

faced challenges and resistance from various section but they tried to contribute in

legislative process. Positive and progressive laws to provide protection to women

came in during past seven years. These laws may have some shortcomings but these

can be reformed with passage of time.

This legislative success should be applauded but pressure should be increased on

the implementation agencies to implement these laws in true spirit and help in

providing relief to women.

Shabina Ayaz

Resident Director

AF Peshawar



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Executive Summary:

The process of data-collection, its compilation and presentation has been

undertaken by the Policy and Data Monitor on Violence against Women Project ofthe Aurat Foundation to highlight the issues of violence against women with the

purpose of eventually eliminating these horrific crimes from the society.

The data has been collected from different sources, one of the main sources was

daily newspapers in Urdu and English published from provincial and national level. In

addition to data-collection from print media, the incidents of violence were also

collected from women crises centers.

Since most of the cases are collected from media which by and large gives coverage

to incidents which have been lodged with the police, and also since the other data isalso gathered from shelter homes, the majority of these cases are reported cases

of violence against women. These cases mostly relate to physical nature of violence

or abuses against women.

One purpose of this data collection exercise and its subsequent dissemination is to

constantly remind the decision-makers and all others stakeholders about the

gravity of the situation and to make them realize the urgency of an all-out

concerted effort, at all levels, to combat and eliminate gender-based violence in

Pakistan.

Here I would like to acknowledge two internees Mr. Hafiz-ur-Rehman and Mr. Diljan

Khan who help in scanning of news papers, cutting and pasting and finalizing the

data and report

This biannual report reflects that a total number of 305 incidents of violence

against women occurred in 25 districts and 3 agencies of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and

FATA during July December 2011. The cases have been put in different

categories depending upon the nature of offence.



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Out of a total of 305 cases of violence against women in KPK, there were:

162 cases of murder

16 cases of honor killing

19 cases of abduction/kidnapping 23 cases of domestic violence

42 cases of suicide

4 cases of rape

39 cases of miscellaneous nature.

In these recorded cases, the percentage of the cases of murder is highest 53.11%

followed by the 13.77 % of suicide;12.80 % of miscellaneous;7.55 % domestic

violence; 6.22% of abduction /kidnapping ; 5.24 % honour killing and 1.31 % of

rape/gang rape.

Number & Percentage of Cases of VAW in KP

JulyDecember 2011

Category of Crime Total Number of Cases %age of the Total

Abduction/kidnapping 19 6.22%

Murder 162 53.11%

Domestic Violence 23 7.55 %Suicide 42 13.77 %

Honor Killing 16 5.24 %

Rape/Gang Rape 4 1.31 %

Miscellaneous 39 12.80 %

Total 305 100

The statistics below show the biannual distribution of VAW cases in KP.

Jan June = 389

July --- December = 305The recorded percentage of the cases of violence against women in the first six

months of 2011 was 56.06 %; and it was 43.94 % in the last six months of 2011.



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District-wise data on Violence against Women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

July December 2011


S # District Name

Abduction/K

idnapping

Murd

er

DomesticViolence

Suici

de

HonourKilling

Rape/Gan

gRape

Miscella

neous

GrandT

otal

Abbottabad 1 1

Bajour Agency (Fata) 2 1 3

Bannu 1 8 9

Battagram 2 1 3

Buner 3 1 4

Charsadda 15 1 1 1 2 20

Chitral 1 5 1 7

D.I.Khan 6 1 2 1 4 14

Hangu 1 3 1 5

Haripur 4 2 1 7

Karak 1 2 1 2 6

Khyber Agency (Fata) 1 1 2

Kohat 4 3 1 1 9

Kohistan 2 2

Lakki Marwat 1 4 1 1 7

Lower Dir 3 3

Malakand p.a 3 1 1 2 7

Mansehra 1 1 2 4

South Waziristan 1 1

Mardan 4 20 7 1 1 5 38

Nowshera 1 17 1 7 1 1 4 32

Peshawar 6 43 14 6 5 1 10 85

Shangla 1 1

Swabi 1 5 1 7

Swat 1 12 1 5 4 21

Tank 2 2

Upper Dir 3 1 4

Torghar 1 1

Grand Total 19 16223 42 16 4 39 305


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Prevalence of Major Categories of Violence against Women in KPK:

Violence has many forms and their effect in any culture is detrimental. In some

societies it exists in form of customary practices or it can be the outcome of the

pressures on individuals and families.

Wheneve9r we discuss GBV or talk about it our focus automatically turns towards

violence against women because it is general belief that men inflict violence on

women or the real perpetrators of violence are men who are responsible for VAW in

any society of the world, whether in a developed or under developed or developing

countries. According to one of the statistical report of UN, nearly 5000 women are

killed around world in name of Honor every year . Different reports on VAW,

even the reports prepared by Aurat Foundation reveal that husband is the main

perpetrator.

In Pakistan where the society is patriarchal women suffers a lot. Women makenearly half the population of the country but still bear the brunt of economic and

social structure and feudalism. They face many forms of violence such as rape,

murder, forced marriage ,Swara/Vani, stove burning , acid throwing ,domestic

violence, sexual harassment and honour killing . Women face all these violence and

still deprived of justice due to complex judicial system.

To reduce violence against women social development goals such as public health,

poverty reduction, social justice, education should be addressed and judicial system

simplified and made easily accessible for women

The biannual report for the period July to December 2011 gives grave picture os

situation of VAW in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These are only the few reported cases

where as majority of cases are not reported thus actual figure cannot be accessed,

but we are still hopeful that laws made will be forcefully implemented to minimize

the miseries of women.

The data below reveals the situation of women in KP.

The data reveals that murder of women was the major crime in KP with 162 cases

of the total cases 43 cases from Peshawar; 20 from Mardan; 17 Nowshera; 15 from

Charsadda ; 12 from Swat; 6 D.I.Khan ;8 from Bannu ; 5 from Swabi; 4 each from

Haripur,Kohat,Lakki Marwat; 3 each from Buner, Hangu, Lower Dir, Malakand, and

Upper Dir; 2 each from Battagram,Karak,and Tank; 1 eacch from Chitral,Khyber

Agency, and Shangla .



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The 16 cases of honour killings reported in these six months. 5 from Peshawar,2

from Kohistan,1 each from Charsadda, D.I.Khan, Hangu, Kohat, Malalkand,

Mansehra, Mardan , Nowshera and Tank

Suicide by women is a key concern in KP. Reported cases are 42 in this report. 7each from Mardan and Nowshera; 6 from Peshawar; 5 each from Chitral & Swat; 2

each from Bajaur Agency, D.I.Khan , Haripur, and 1 each from Battagram,

Charsadda, Khyber Agency, Lakki Marwat, Malakand,& Swabi

Abduction of women is another crime which was reported in newspapers. There had

been 19 cases of abduction/kidnapping during July December 2011. 6 cases

reported from Peshawar; 4 from Mardan; 1 each from Bannu Karak, Hangu, Lakki

Marwat, Mansehra , South Waziristan, Nowshera, Swabi & Swat

The data shows that only 4 of rape/gang rape was reported and registered duringthis reporting period. The reported rape crime was from 1 each from Peshawar ,

Nowshera , Mardan & Charsadda

Domestic violence is another category of crime in which 23 were reported. The

reported cases are 14 from Peshawar; 3 from Kohat; 1 each from Buner, D.I.K,

Karak, Nowshera, Lakki Marwat & Swat

Cases under the category of Miscellaneous are 39. This category comprise of

vani/swara. Hurt &body injury, attempt murder, Attempt suicide, women trafficking

attempt kidnapping. The reported cases are 10 from Peshawar, 5 from Mardan; 4

each from D.I.Khan & Nowshera; 2 each from Charsadda, Karak, Malakand,

Mansehra & Swat; 1 each from Abbottabad, Bajaur Agency, Chitral,Haripur, Kohat,

& Upper Dir

Sources of Information:

Out of the total of 305 cases of violence against women; 293 have been collected

from the newspapers; 12 from Mera Ghar (Noor Education Trust)

FIR Status:

According to the reported data, the FIRs or complaints were registered in 236

cases. FIRs could not be registered in 18 cases, while in 51 cases the status of FIR

could not be ascertained that whether it was registered or not.

Marital Status of Victims/Survivors:

Out of the total of 305 cases of violence against women during this reporting

period, the marital status of total 333 victims/surviors was mentioned in the



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compiled data.In 58 cases there was no information about their marital status,

whereas 195 were married victims /survivors, and 80 were not married.

Age Groups of Victims/Survivors:

Out of the total of 305 cases of violence against women, 47 victim/survivor werereported in the age category of 0-18 yr, 22 were in the age group of 19-36 and in

age group 37 years and above 4 women were reported where as there was no

information about the age group of 260 women .

Rural Urban Break Down:

Out of 305 cases of VAW the rural cases are 218, where as urban cases are 87.

This data reveals that in rural area more cases of violence take place.

Men/ Boys Victims:

This data shows that 84 men /boys were also the victims in some cases.

Motives:

The motive behind these cases is usually family dispute, property dispute, petty

dispute, and illicit relation, refusal to marriage proposal, choice marriage, forced

marriage, old enmity, and unknown.

Relationship:

Offence of VAW is committed usually by relations close to us, but in some cases

relationship with the offender is not mentioned .Mostly the offenders are

husbands, father, son, brother, brother-in-law, father-in-law, nephew, cousin, uncle,

mother-in-law, etc and in many cases relationship is not mentioned.

Weapon used:

Different types of weapons are used in the cases .they are pistols, axe, sharp knife,

poisonous medicine, kerosene oil, strangle, suffocate beating, acid etc. and in some

cases weapon used is not mentioned.

This report shows the status of VAW in KP. Collection and publication of data is not

sufficed. Only meaningful interpretation of data and its dissemination to larger

extent will guarantee its access to the target audience which is the common women

of Pakistan who herself is unaware of her rights under law and religion. The

legislature and decision makers should bring about change in policies to bring

change in ages old patriarchal society.


Documents

Detail Report Overall Cases of VAW KP Julyto Dec 2011 Final