Special topic Violence against women in South Asian countries
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چکیده
violence by family members, strangers and agents of the state; domestic abuse including spousal murder; being burned, disfigured with acid, beaten and threatened; ritual honour killings; and custodial abuse and torture. The focus of this paper is on Pakistani women, but references will also be made to women in South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Japan etc. The image of Asian women has always been shrouded in mystery due to a lack of information on the part of most of the writers and scholars who generally, inaccurately, equate them with Arab or Oriental women, neither of which is true. Hence it is vital to give a brief account of the historical development of their personality in order to understand the dynamics of violence against them.
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