Violence against women

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has received information and requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in Bangladesh.
In 2008, political violence erupted throughout Zimbabwe as a result of highly contested national elections.
The bill outlawing domestic violence passed by the National Assembly on August 4 is a step in the right direction.
Un Jordanien a été inculpé pour avoir tué sa sœur enceinte, qui s'était mariée sans la permission de la famille, après l'avoir entraînée dans un traquenard avec l'aide de ses autres frères, a indiqué hier un porte-parole de la police.
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
L’assassinat de madame le maire de la commune rurale de Yognongon, dans le cercle de Koutiala, est le principal sujet qui défraie la chronique dans le cercle depuis le lundi 10 août 2009.
Doctors and nurses have been asked to desist from carrying out female genital mutilation in their clinics.
A man has been charged with shooting dead his pregnant sister for marrying without family permission, after luring her to another brother's wedding in a conspiracy with him, police said on Thursday.
A five-year-old girl was beheaded by a neighbour who believed her 'sacrifice' would help him and his wife conceive a son.
"One of the men interviewed in prison told Onal, "It's easy for women's charities and the EU to say 'stop killing' from afar, but people will not stop. If you live in our neighborhoods, you would kill. We have to change our neighborhoods..."
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