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Lack of clarity on ‘early marriage’ cause for India not sponsoring UN child marriage resolution: MEA
India stopped short of co-sponsoring a first-of-its-kind United Nations resolution on eliminating “early marriage” due to a lack of greater legal clarity, the External Affairs Ministry said in a reply to an RTI application. The Resolution on ‘Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage: Challenges, achievements, best practices and implementation gaps’, .. read more
Jan
Pupils missing after school holidays shows big increase in district
The number of children who go missing during school holidays is on the rise, the Telegraph & Argus can reveal. New data shows 96 children failed to return to school as expected after the long summer break last year, the highest number in three years and a 55 per cent rise on the previous year’s .. read more
Jan
Break the Silence on Honor Killing
“I am sharing this reluctantly: last night’s shooting gun sounds were so close that it turned out a family from our neighborhood killed their daughter after an unsuccessful forced marriage. My only plea is that they could never see the light of day again.” The update of one of my Kurdish friends on Facebook called .. read more
Jan
MNC employee murdered in suspected case of honour killing
In a suspected case of honour killing, a 23-year-old engineer of a private company was allegedly murdered by the family of the girl he was engaged in Kutail village of the district. The body of Ravinder was found from a canal here almost 19 days after he went missing under mysterious circumstances. Police said here .. read more
Jan
Homicide: Six killed over ‘honour’ in separate incidents
GILGIT: At least six people lost their lives in two separate cases of ‘honour’ killing. Four people, including two women, were gunned down in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) late Sunday night, while two pedestrians caught in the line of fire were also injured. Senior police official Jehangir Khan on Monday said armed men barged into a house and .. read more
Jan
Brothers murder sister, her hubby in honour killing
PAKPATTAN: Brothers gunned down their own sister and her husband over their marriage by choice and voluntarily surrendered themselves in the police station, Geo News reported on Sunday. Police said that one Sana and Amjad of Chak number 107 had married by choice, but the Punchaiyet had sent Sana back to her parent’s house, in .. read more
Jan
Honour killing: Man, two sons gunned down in Charsadda
CHARASADDA: A man and his two sons were gunned down in what appeared to be a case of honour killing in Majoki, on the outskirts of Charsadda, on Thursday. Prang police official Amir Nawaz said the deceased were working in their bakery when they were shot. Fawad Ali registered a case with the police that his .. read more
Jan
Empower ZPs to Curb Child Marriages: NGO
The Karnataka Child Rights Observatory has come up with a set of recommendations to completely eliminate child marriage from the country. This follows months after India refused to sign a global resolution, led by the United Nations, against early and forced child marriage. As per the recommendations, Zilla panchayats in Karnataka should be given the .. read more
Jan
UN children’s expert praises Canada’s focus on fighting forced marriage of girls
OTTAWA – A top United Nations official is praising the Harper government’s foreign policy initiative to end forced marriage of young girls, even if Canada won’t fund projects that would allow victims access to an abortion. The Conservative government’s practice of not allowing aid dollars to go towards organizations that offer abortions to victimized girls .. read more
Jan
Karo-kari murders: Four people shot dead in honour killings
SUKKUR: Four people were killed in two separate incidents of Karo-Kari within the RD-109 police limits near Buxapur in Kashmore district on Saturday. The first incident took place in the village of Yar Mohammad Jakhrani, where a man and woman were gunned down on suspicion of illicit relations. Miran Jakhrani suspected that his daughter was .. read more
Jan
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