Domestic voilanve

2. Social Issues
By
“Warisha Masood”
SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF
PAKISTAN

3. SOCIAL ISSUES IN PAKISTAN
• Economy : Standards of living,Poverty,slums,tasport,communication,etc
• Health : Healthcare,HIV/Aids,Polio,Smoking,etc
• Education : Literacy, School corporal punishment
• Family : family planing,complex family,nuclear family,dowry,divorse,etc.
• Children : Street children,child labour,child marrige (sawra . Vani), child
prostitution .
• Women : Ave teasing,Aid throughing,bride burring,watta satta,women rights
in Pakistan
• Cast system : Cast system among south Asian Muslims

4. SOCIAL ISSUES IN PAKISTAN
• Crime and terrorism : Terrorism,corruption,human
trafficking,illegal immigration,organised crime,war on terror
• Environmental issues : effects of Global warming, natural
disaster ,water supply and sanitation
• Media : Censorship,Internet censorship.
• Others : Democracy,Domestic voilence in Pakistan,humman
rights,Hijra,suicide,gambling,alcohal prohibition.

5. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

6. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
• Violence encompasse “physical,
visual, verbal or sexual acts
that are experienced by a
woman or girl,

7. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
• As threat, invasion, or assault and
that have the effect of hurting her
or degrading her and /or taking
away her ability to control contact
(intimate and otherwise) with
another individual”

8. CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

9. TYPES OF VIOLENCE
Physical: pushing, grabbing, slapping,
kicking, hitting with an object, use of
knife
or gun, acid throwing, burning.
Verbal: shouting, making threats,
calling
names, humiliating remarks (gestures).
Exercising control: Isolating her from
her family/ friends checking on her, using
the children, economic control.

10. WHY IS VICTIMIZATION OF WOMEN SO COMMON.?
• Physically weak.
• Dependency status.
• Social tolerance of victimization.
• Little whom they associate with.
• Limited mobility

11. OUT’PATIENT DEPARTMENTS OF
PSYCHIATRY,
LIAQAT NATIONAL HOSPITAL, PNS SHIFA AND
SOBRAJ HOSPITAL KARACHI.
• 63% of the participants were
identified as victims of domestic
violence on Karachi Domestic
Violence Screening Scale.
• 36% of the victims were males .
• 64% of the victims were females.

12. OUT’PATIENT DEPARTMENTS OF PSYCHIATRY,
LIAQAT NATIONAL HOSPITAL, PNS SHIFA AND
SOBRAJ HOSPITAL KARACHI.
• 35% of the victims reported facing physical
abuse.
• 52% of the victims reported psychological
abuse and 60% of the victims had
depression.

13. EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
• Depression
• Chronic pain
• Death
• Dehydration
• Panic attacks
• Drug and alcohol dependence
• Eating disorders
• Emotional "over-reactions" to stimuli
• General emotional numbing
• Health problems
• Repeated self-injury

14. • IT’ S HARD TO STOP
BECAUSE IT’S
HARD TO REPORT!!