Violence Against Women (VAW) Annual Report 2014
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Violence Against Women (VAW) Annual Report 2014 Violence against women in Pakistan A qualitative review of reported incidents January – December 2014 i About the author Rabeea Hadi, is Director of Advocacy and EVAW at Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation, where she monitors project progress, policy and legislative discussions, debates, and developments. She is also involved in lobbying with relevant stakeholders, especially parliamentarians, WPC, NCSW and PCSWs and relevant ministries to mainstream and ensure the presence of women’s issues on all agendas. She is involved in drafting of national policy framework on Violence Against Women as well as Standard Operations Procedures of Shelters (SOPs) on shelters. She is the editor of PDM-VAW research studies on women`s social issues and works with other on-going projects, including the violence against women project, CEDAW shadow report, liaison and manager of Women Learning Partnership- related activities, and WE CAN alliance. Rabeea also provides socio-legal support to survivors of violence and produces related project reports published on a quarterly and yearly basis by Aurat Foundation. Muhammad Ullah is currently working with Aurat Foundation (AF) in its Gender Based Violence (GBV) Advocacy & Capacity Development Project as Programme officer- Monitoring & Evaluation. He has developed and implemented M&E system for the said project based on result based management principles by setting SMART indicators, user friendly data collection and analysis tools and centralized data tracking sheets. He has developed project proposal and assisted out surveys, position papers and research studies. Besides monitoring & Evaluation, his core strengths are coordination and liaison with Govt. and private sector individuals, groups and departments. He has command over SPSS data analysis, report writing and proposal development, designing Logical Framework and Result Indicator Monitoring Frameworks. He is a bronze medalist in BBA (Hons) from Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar and is currently pursuing Masters in Project Management from Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad. All rights reserved This publication is provided gratis or sold, subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher. References to this report and excerpts of the report can be reproduced with due acknowledgement of the publication and Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation (AF). Published by: Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation Edited by: Benazir Jatoi Title & layout design by: Shahzad Ashraf Date of publication: January 2015 ii Table of Contents _ List of Abbreviations .............................................................................................................................. x Glossary ................................................................................................................................................. xi Preface ................................................................................................................................................. xvii Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................. xix CHAPTER 1: Pakistan - Demographics and Overview of VAW Cases ................................... - 1 - 1.1 Overview of Pakistan .......................................................................................................... - 1 - 1.2 Year-wise comparison of VAW cases in Pakistan ...................................................................... - 1 - 1.3 VAW cases for the period 2008-2014 and comparisons with the last two years ..................... - 2 - 1.4 Number and percentage of major categories of VAW cases in 2014 ....................................... - 3 - 1.5 Province/region-wise breakdown of VAW cases in Pakistan .................................................... - 4 - 1.6 Percent contribution of each province/region in major categories and total/national VAW data ........................................................................................................................................................ - 4 - 1.7 Top 15 worst district of VAW crimes in 2014 ........................................................................... - 5 - CHAPTER 02: Analysis of Key Crime Categories .................................................................. - 7 - Key Crime Categories ......................................................................................................................... - 7 - 1: Analysis of Abduction/Kidnapping cases in Pakistan .................................................................. - 7 - 2: Analysis of murder cases in Pakistan ........................................................................................ - 11 - 3: Analysis of Rape/Gang Rape cases in Pakistan ......................................................................... - 15 - 4. Analysis of Suicide incidents in Pakistan ................................................................................... - 19 - 5. Analysis of ‘Honour’ killing cases in Pakistan ............................................................................ - 23 - 6. Analysis of Domestic violence cases in Pakistan ....................................................................... - 28 - 7. Analysis of sexual assault cases in Pakistan .............................................................................. - 32 - 8. Analysis of acid throwing cases in Pakistan .............................................................................. - 35 - 9. Analysis of burn related cases in Pakistan ................................................................................ - 39 - 10. Analysis of Miscellaneous cases in Pakistan ........................................................................... - 43 - Chapter 3: Demographics and FIR status of VAW victims ................................................... - 49 - 3.1 FIR status for the VAW cases in 2014 ..................................................................................... - 49 - 3.2 Marital status of survivors/victims of VAW ............................................................................ - 50 - 3.3 Age-wise distribution of survivors/victims of VAW cases ....................................................... - 51 - Chapter 4: Provincial and Regional Insights of VAW cases in 2014 ...................................... - 53 - Punjab ........................................................................................................................................... - 53 - Sindh ............................................................................................................................................. - 54 - iii Khyber Pakhthunkhwa .................................................................................................................. - 56 - Balochistan .................................................................................................................................... - 58 - Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) .................................................................................................. - 60 - FATA .............................................................................................................................................. - 62 - iv List of Tables Table 1: Offence- wise/year-wise breakdown of VAW Cases .................................................................. - 2 - Table 2: Number and percentage of major categories of VAW cases in 2014 ....................................... - 3 - Table 3: Offence- wise & Province/region - wise breakdown of VAW Cases in Pakistan .................. - 4 - Table 4: Percentage contribution of Punjab in total national VAW data................................................. - 5 - Table 5: Top 15 worst district of VAW crime ............................................................................................. - 6 - Table 6: Abduction/Kidnapping-Trends in last seven years ...................................................................... - 7 - Table 7: Abduction/kidnapping-Percent increase/decrease over the last seven years ........................... - 8 - Table 8: Abduction/kidnapping-10 worst districts in Pakistan ................................................................. - 9 - Table 9: Abduction/Kidnaping-Province and region-wise trends ........................................................... - 10 - Table 10: Murder cases-figures for the last seven years .......................................................................... - 11 - Table 11: Murder-Percent increase/decrease over the last seven years ................................................. - 12 - Table 12: Murder cases-10 worst districts in Pakistan 2014 ................................................................... - 13 - Table 13: Murder cases-Province and region-wise trends in 2014 ......................................................... - 13 - Table 14: Rape/Gang Rape-Trend in last seven years .............................................................................. - 16 - Table 15: Rape/Gang Rape-Percent