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• Crimes against women on rise in Pakistan. Sify News, 18 April 2008. Karachi: Over 4,000 cases of crimes against women were reported in Pakistan last year - more than double the figure in 2006. But rights organisations say this is just the tip of the iceberg and many more violations go unreported or are hushed up.
  
• Rape case muddied by claims of 3 parties. Daily Times, 20 March 2008. KARACHI: The alleged gang rape case of a newly married woman, who was visiting Quaid-e-Azam’s mazaar from the Punjab on March 16, has developed into a war of words between the police, NGO War Against Rape, the Pakistan People’s Party and her family, with each issuing separate statements and stories.
• 6-year-old rape victim in critical condition. Daily Times, 15 March 2008. LAHORE: Doctors at Mayo Hospital have said that the six-year-old girl, who was raped by four men on Tuesday, was in critical condition.
  
• Trafficking of children on the rise. IRIN News, 21 January 2008. Many of these girls, according to child rights groups, end up as sex workers. Some are no older than 10 at the time of the "sale".
  
• Traditional marriages ignore HIV/AIDS threat. IRIN News, 06 December 2007. Bound by 'watta satta', a cultural tradition of exchanged marriage between two families, Nuzhat (not her real name), 22, cannot disclose her HIV status.

• State of Human Rights 2007, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 2008
• Anti-Child Trafficking Legislation in Asia: A Six Country Review, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand & Indonesia, International Labour Organisation, 2006
  
• Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives: South Asia, Center for Reproductive Rights, 2004
• Crime or Custom? Violence Against Women in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch 1999
• Double Jeopardy : Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch 1992

• Intimate partner violence among Afghan women living in refugee camps in Pakistan. Hyder, A. A., Z. Noor, et al. Social Science & Medicine 64(7): 1536-1547, 2007
• Prevalence of and reasons for domestic violence among women from low socioeconomic communities of Karachi. Ali TS, Bustamante-Gavino I. East Mediterr Health Journal; 13(6): 1417-26; 2007