'However, customary and Islamic laws practices in the country negate the equality of women as guaranteed in constitution of Pakistan' (Usman 2006). ... 'Domestic violence in Pakistan takes the form of wife beating, stove burning, acid throwing, honor killings, and forced marriages. ... 'Many of these attacks occurred over an arguments between wife and mother in law, over dowery or money. ... Similarly, dowry demand is the leading cause of wife burning. Further, husbands and in-laws are the leading suspects in the cases of wife burning' (Siddiqui, R, Hamid, S, & Siddi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Instead of entering into the debate of wether this area should receive top priority or not, we shall simply maintain, that the population problem has been defined and formulated not wholly indigenously, but to a large extent at the instigation and assistance of donor countries, and organizations. The population explosion related as it is with the gradual shrinking of the world's resources, is a global phenomena which affects rich as well as poor countries. ... Kiefther, Assistant Administration for Population and Humanitarian Assistant in the US Congress.4 It was maintained that for the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This county is well known for being the most violent county in the country from the perspective of historians. ... Years later Pud would die in a car accident in 1924 leaving his wife Francis and their three boys Willie, Fred, James to fend for themselves and move to Augusta Georgia. ... Whom he and his wife would abandon and left to be taken care of by his grandmother as well as fend for himself on the poor streets of Augusta Georgia. ...

• Word Count: 3198
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Up until the late 1800's, a man in this country had the right to chastise his wife until the practice was declared illegal in two states (Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence Manual, p. ...

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The wife may think that as long as she solely is being raped and abused by her husband, her children will be fine. ... According to the National Victims Center, a sexual assault occurs in this country once every six minutes. ...

• Word Count: 7108
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• Grade Level: High School