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...Pakistan is sometimes a bizarre blend of the modern and the archaic, nowhere is the archaic more powerful than in the way the country's legal system treats women who accuse men of rape. The problem lies in the so-called Hudood ordinances, a series of Islamic decrees that are enforced in tandem with the country's secular legal system. Human rights activists say these laws blatantly discriminate against women. For a rapist to be convicted, for example, his crime has to be confirmed by four adult male Muslim eyewitnesses, or the rapist must confess. If the court rules that...
...defense, though none wants to take responsibility for what has happened to her. "It is a horrible story of manipulations by her family, lawyers, police and even by the court," says Afrasiab Khattak, chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which estimates that a woman is raped every two hours in the country. Zafran Bibi's husband, Naimat Khan, claims his own father used Zafran Bibi to settle a score with another villager. Khan, who until last year was in jail himself on a murder rap, says his father forced Zafran Bibi to make the rape accusation against...
...they are assaulted, it is in their best interest to get in touch with the police immediately. The group should be calling for the kind of institutional support for students that will make this new policy effective, including readily available University transportation to the Boston hospitals that do rape kits...
CASV should be yelling for an increase in the services that help victims pursue their cases in court, not whining that Harvard doesn’t care about rape. The University has in fact passed a change in policy that helps students more readily get the justice they deserve...
...their allegations to the criminal courts instead of immediately launching a full investigation. Instead of shirking its responsibility to enforce Harvard’s community standards, the College must create a separate disciplinary board capable of dealing with all allegations of sexual assault and improve resources for rape victims...