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By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 3: A Pakistani film documenting the issue of forced religious conversion in the Sindh province of Pakistan has won an award at the Cannes World Film Festival in the Best Human Rights Category for the month of November 2022. Made by Jawad Sharif, it is based on real events involving four…
LAHORE: As many as 100 cases of abduction, forced faith conversion, forced and child marriage of girls and women belonging to the Christian community have been reported since January 2019 to October 2022 in Pakistan, says a report titled “Conversion without Consent” released by Voice for Justice (VFJ) and Jubilee Campaign. According to the report…
The accused has been identified as G Vetrivel Murugan, a native of Narikudi, Virudhunagar district, sources said on Sunday. Investigations carried out by the Tallakulam police revealed that Vetrivel Murugan, who settled in Madurai, forcibly married the girl aged 17 years. He tortured the girl by inflicting cigarette burns on her body when she refused…
A court in Lahore on Friday declared as legal the marriage of a 13-year-old Christian girl, ruling that the marriage took place as per the Christian Marriage Act. The ruling from the Lahore High Court (LHC) came in response to a writ petition filed by the girl’s mother. She maintained that her 13-year-old daughter Aleeza…
A court on Tuesday barred the media from disclosing the name, picture, or any other particulars of a 15-year-old who went missing from Karachi in April and was later traced in Punjab, where she purportedly contracted a freewill marriage with a Lahore-based man. Judicial Magistrate (East) Aftab Ahmed Bughio passed the restraining order on an…
Express News Service BENGALURU: It is almost a century since the first law (Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929) to prevent child marriages came into effect. There has been significant strengthening of laws to prevent child marriages and abuse since then – Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 and amendment to it in 2017, exception 2…
On June 8, the Sindh High Court disposed of the petition for the recovery of Dua Zehra in her favour and allowed her to decide whom she intended to reside or go with, sparking much outrage, concern and debate on several issues ranging from age of consent to agency of adolescents, fear and coercion to…
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