Several died, apparently from beatings.

I've seen transvestites take beatings by a madam s stick.

His back was trampled on until he was wounded all over.

The percentage of domestic female workers who allege sexual harassment is even higher (91 ).

I've been beaten up more than 14 times in my life.

Any woman who objected was hit and threatened with death.

Theoretically they can seek redress under various provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code should they suffer abuse.

In a survey on domestic violence taken by a non governmental organization (NGO), 84 per cent of the female subjects claimed to have suffered physical abuse.

Undercover investigations have repeatedly shown animals being beaten and given electric shocks.

In the second phase, 14 shelters are available for battered women and their children.

They were taken to Sepah prison, where the author was allegedly beaten until she fell unconscious.

She studied at a Catholic school, and at one point was bullied in fifth grade.

These fires are a method of cooking and heating for nearly 3 billion people with their health effects being greater among women due to more exposure.

In 2003, his elderly father in law was beaten by police agents and forced into internal exile.

Sexual harassment and bullying has no gender...Just as there is no denying that there are many battered men, raped women, and incest victims.

In 1920 he was beaten by police in a riot during the Floral Games celebrations.

One of the homeowners was reportedly beaten up and arrested four times, in front of his children.

He told her that he had been beaten with a steel wire and baseball bats and had fainted from the beating.

She was also concerned at the violation of the rights of single women teachers, who were subject to dismissal, should they become pregnant.

The father noted that his son had been beaten and stated that he would complain to the competent authorities.

Women are also subjected to beatings and humiliation during the arrest or detention of their family members.

He was ordered to stand on one leg for four hours. He says he was beaten repeatedly, as threats were made to rape his mother and sisters.

The Ministry of Social Affairs provides battered women with three phases of shelter care.

Umm Abdulla Al Harbi also reported that one of the prisoners' relatives, Maha al Duhayan, was beaten and had her hand broken

(iii) Data on provision and utilization of services, especially among mothers and children who are likely to be excluded because of geographical, social, political, economic, ethnic and gender marginalization.

Did you know that in the 21st century, there are still people being beaten, stigmatized, arrested and in some cases even killed... just because they are LGBT?

That her son was beaten was established by a medical examination conducted by the Ministry of Defence on 12 July 1999.

In particular, he complains of having been beaten and subjected to ill treatment by prison officials in the various Spanish prisons where he has been incarcerated.

We see lawyers marching, getting beaten up, filling the jails, and yet remaining resolute.

This cooperation is the only way to force the North s hand and put an end to the incessant cycle of crisis and mounting risk.

A week ago my dear friend and Brother, Mohammed Omer, was nearly beaten to DEATH and tortured by Israeli Security officers.

Zaruhi Petrosyan, a young mother who was beaten to death last year by her husband and mother in law Image courtesy of family via News.am

Her younger sister, just 10 years old, has never experienced the inncocence of childhood, and was regularly beaten by her master.

The video also shows a protester in a black t shirt taken by the IDF and left on the floor, injured.

2.5 The author claims that, whilst being interrogated on the day of his arrest, he was beaten, threatened and insulted, and was not provided with a lawyer.

Human rights groups report that opponents of the junta's proposed constitution have been beaten and intimidated in advance of the vote.

Over the past two years, police and government supported paramilitaries have routinely jailed, beaten, and even killed MDC officials and suspected MDC members.

She was hit with a rifle belt, strung up upside down until she started to bleed from her nose, stripped and burned with cigarette butts.

3.1 The author claims that her husband was beaten and ill treated by police officers during interrogations at the police station.

The author furthermore identified by name some of the individuals alleged to have been responsible for the beatings of her son and for burning her husband's hands with an iron.

After going to the cinema, she and her boyfriend were beaten, before she was brutally assaulted and attacked with an iron rod for more than an hour.

The North Indians who got beaten up had come to appear for examinations for jobs in Indian Railway.

They were allegedly arrested in the same way as adults, at night, taken to military camps and beaten up.

The majority of cases in which civilians were beaten occurred in Bujumbura rural during operations by FDN.

The author contends that during the investigation, his son was handcuffed to his chair and beaten to make him confess his guilt.