A study on domestic violence; unveiling the scars of the victim women

The purpose of this report is to build an understanding about domestic violence against women as it is one of the taboos of our society. The report talks about status of women in Islam and the domestic violence protection and prevention bill recently passed in the Sindh Assembly. The report tries to reach to the victim women and to give them chance to speak to the world. These victims were approached and interviewed through a questionnaire. They are passing the days of their lives in Edhi Centre Karachi. Their ordeals and grievances are not easy to pen down but a little effort was made to give them a supportive hand to share their catastrophic stories while explaining them the questionnaire. The unseen scars of their soul were revealed by elaborating the kind of trauma they have gone through before coming to the foster home. To balance the research, sample of educated men's opinion about the domestic violence faced by women was also included. The report explains the due rights given to women in Islam and provides guidelines by how to follow these teachings and avoid this endemic domestic violence.