@report {477466,
	title = {Pakistan: Domestic violence, including effectiveness of the Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Act, 2006; state protection and services available to victims},
	year = {2013},
	institution = {Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada},
	abstract = {http://irb-cisr.gc.ca/Eng/ResRec/RirRdi/Pages/index.aspx?doc=454350Sources indicate that domestic violence in Pakistan is a "serious problem" (US 24 May 2012, 1; Human Rights WatchJan.\&nbsp;2012). Sources report on several forms of domestic violence, including torture (US 24 May 2012, 42; WEWA 18 Dec. 2012), forced marriages (ibid. 9 Dec. 2012; AHRC 25\&nbsp;Nov.\&nbsp;2011), physical disfigurement (US 24 May 2012, 42), amputation (HRCP 2012, 166), the denial of food (AHRC 25\&nbsp;Nov.\&nbsp;2011), rape (ibid.; WEWA 9 Dec, 2012), and shaving hair and eyebrows (US 24 May 2012, 42).The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) indicates that perpetrators of domestic violence can be the victim{\textquoteright}s husband, or men or women in the victim{\textquoteright}s family or her husband{\textquoteright}s family (25\&nbsp;Nov.\&nbsp;2011). The US Department of State\&nbsp;Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011\&nbsp;states that in-laws have abused and harassed the wives of their sons (US 24 May 2012, 43).The AHRC states that victims are often stigmatized and blamed for the gender-based violence that they have experienced, and have often been labelled as the "false accuser" (2012, Sec.\&nbsp;J.3). The AHRC adds that when a woman is beaten, society portrays it as being because the woman cannot take care of her husband{\textquoteright}s needs (25\&nbsp;Nov.\&nbsp;2011). Corroborating information could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate within the time constraints of this Response.},
	url = {http://irb-cisr.gc.ca/Eng/ResRec/RirRdi/Pages/index.aspx?doc=454350}
}
