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Pakistan: U.N. Posted Red Cross Report on “Honor Killings” in Pakistan

(Pakistan) U.N. Posted Red Cross Report on “Honor Killings” in Pakistan
— “Human rights groups say Pakistani women suffer severe discrimination, domestic violence  and ‘honour’ killings, and are increasingly isolated by spreading Islamist fundamentalism.”
— Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD), Pakistan: honour killing of men; availability of state protection, 9 July 2009, a-6813