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Violence against women is accepted as a custom rather than condemned as a serious crime. Research in Pakistan-s two largest cities, Karachi and Lahore, documents the myriad ways in which Pakistan-s government has failed to protect the rights of women victims of violence and denied them justice. Women victims of violence who turn to the criminal justice system confront a discriminatory legal regime, venal and abusive police, untrained medicolegal doctors, incompetent prosecutors, and skeptical judges. This investigation is based on interviews with prosecutors, human rights lawyers, and women victims of violence who had attempted to navigate the criminal justice system in order to obtain redress. |
