Pakistan has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in Asia.
Parliament recently passed laws aimed at improving the rights of women, but practical support for victims of domestic violence is rare but one group in Karachi is making a difference.
The country has now opened its Pakistan's first helpline for women seeking help for domestic violence.
Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab reports from Karachi.
Comments on "Pakistan fighting domestic violence"
@pics4roisin The ... @pics4roisin The first teaching from Bhagavad-Gita is, that you are not the body, you are a spirit soul. So woman or man is only a temporary material body. All this argument about a peace of blood,flesh,urine and stool is a waste of time. The aim of Yoga? is to link oneself to God and recover ones real spiritual body, which is neither man or woman. It is pure consciousness.
@guydecervens Uh I ... @guydecervens Uh I think the video said that in laws which includes? mother in laws perpetrate domestic violence as well, all violence except in self defense is wrong.
@BhaktaRobin That's ... @BhaktaRobin That's wonderful so women who are treated like s**t in this life can look forward to being a man in the next thanks! I? think women would rather have rights now, vs being on the equivalent of livestock. You are obviously not a woman if you think that way.
it is? a very very ... it is? a very very s**tty country!xd
What do a? Paki and ... What do a? Paki and an Appendix have in common?
They're both not needed and can explode at any time.
@dell1940 Even ... @dell1940 Even before women gained rights, In the rest of the world, women had the right of? wearing what they wish, Unlike Islamic Nations which always blame women for all their problems. The Western world was greatly inspired by Greek and Roman values where women were given a lot of freedom.
Only in Islam do you find a sick ideology that women are to be blamed for a guy getting "Horny", Islam does have this "Male Superiority" Complex which is the reason these women abuses happen.
@dell1940 No person ... @dell1940 No person dresses their women in any part of the world with the exception of Islamic Nations where a woman is forced to wear a Burqa not because she likes it but because she is forced to, or she gets sent to jail, raped or lashed a hundred times for showing skin.
Women in the west aren't puppets of men,? They rebelled and gained their own freedom to do what they wish in the 1800s and since then, Women get to choose what they wear, Unlike Islamic nations where woman have no rights.
Great? Great?
@dell1940 ps most ... @dell1940 ps most men in america are also sissy lol see how fast women call the police on there lovers most men? go jail for nothing then speaking to loud in front of their wifes
@Migueljs16 yea ... @Migueljs16 yea it happens but in a different way...we have some guys here in the usa would make his wife dress like a whores. and some take othere type of control its all about Control in a Mans life and how he? does it its in every mans mind
@thirakwa No I mean ... @thirakwa No I mean south-east asia, which includes the? Indian sub-continent also.
@meghasharmaJ1 you ... @meghasharmaJ1 you mean "south asian". "south-EAST asian"? refers to people in countries like malaysia, thailand, singapore, indonesia, etc.
@dell1940 "Domestic ... @dell1940 "Domestic violence is more of? a Problem in the USA"
Yes because most of the cases are reported.? In Islamic Nations, Any Abuse or Sexual assault is rarely reported since the women are uneducated and it would be a matter of Honor which if reported, Ends in the women being Stoned to death or Sent to Prison for Adultery.
This is the Backward Justice system in Islamic Nations that may be concealing a Goliath of women abuses all across Islamic Nations which go vastly unreported.
:-)? :-)?
@dell1940 really? ... @dell1940 really? do hunsbang kill their wife just for looking at a man?
Force confienment, force marriage? and a bunch of? other savage behaviors?
f**king retard
@RayKalmNiam You ... @RayKalmNiam You don't see 100% women wearing headscarfs in Pakistan because headscarfs are arabic and not south-east asian. How the hell did head-scarf and burqa entered south-east asian culture is almost baffling.
The women wearing headscrafs are being forced to follow the culture of supposed lineage (Pakistanis want to pretend that they? are Arabs but most of them used to be Hindu and native south-east Asians).
domestic violence ... domestic violence is more of a Problem? in the USA
@machax002 Look for ... @machax002 Look for what? you seek
@ziccy7 Two? @ziccy7 Two?
@RayKalmNiam 1:52? ... @RayKalmNiam 1:52? are those to women forced to wear them
pakistan wanted ... pakistan wanted jihad ,? and khilafat ,,, so they got what they wanted !!!!! anarchy .
this is the worlds ... this is the worlds worst nation. the international community needs to help this lost and Neanderthal like country! ?
@yourtreat2 Stoning ... @yourtreat2 Stoning cases in America: 25-30. Stoning? cases in Pakistan: 1-5.
Yeah.
@RayKalmNiam Yes. ... @RayKalmNiam Yes. Pakistan is a very liberal-minded Country where women are treated as the sheep they are brought? up to be. Very observant of you.
You could see that ... You could see that in Pakistan, women aren't forced to wear headscarfs, as in Iran,? and many Arab countries they are.
@Ibrahim1109 Indeed ... @Ibrahim1109 Indeed. your country is? one of them as well, including countries like Turkey, Egypt, and US.
@Alhazem1 Same with ... @Alhazem1 Same with your country. And? every other Muslim country.
@pythag123 Watch ... @pythag123 Watch you mouth! What kind of mother raised you to call somebody you do not even know jackass? You should learn some manners, or you might offend the wrong person one day. I never said anything against women. The women should be honored due to being chaste housewifes and mothers.? This is the perfection of womanhood. God created men and women to work together and not against each other. That women are in need of a protector(husband,father,brother) is the arangement of the Supreme.
pakistan is asias ... pakistan is asias somalia..a country? of where violence is not news...
I? have never heard ... I? have never heard any good news from paki land.....always negative news..
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