Hyderabad: August 20, 2009. (PCP report) Mr. Abbas Kassar, Coordinator of Peace and Human Rights Trust, Sindh, have issued an alarming reports on situation of women in Sindh, province of Pakistan. The report says that in month of May 2009, in Sindh province, 40 women were killed under honor killing, 20 women were gang raped, 43 women were kidnapped and 3 women were buried without coffin. The report elaborates that 175 men were also killed including killed in honor. The PHRT is a London based human right orgnization have chapters in Pakistan to watch human right situation. Mr. Kassar, a senior journalist and Coordinator of PHRT term this report “The human rights situation in Sindh is very alarming. Peace and Human Rights Trust has made a report for the month of May while reports of June and July is also ready to release” This is meant to open the eyes of rulers that they have failed to protect human rights of people especially of women. The Peace and human rights trust is non-governmental and non-political organization with its head office in London where its chairman former prisoner of conscience Mr Mukhtar Rana lives. He is also former speaker of Amnesty International. PHRT strives holding dignity and respect for human rights which campaign internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected anywhere. PHRT work to prevent and stop abuses of human rights including rights of women, children and downtrodden people and demand justice for those whose rights have been violated. PHRT, in its 4 years campaign, has also liberated around 2500 bonded peasants from the private prisons of landlords in Pakistan. We believe that there are around 1.7 million bonded peasants in Sindh alone. We are working for rehabilitation of liberated bonded peasants numbering around 27000 living in 7 Hari camps around Hyderabad city. Peace and Human Rights Trust, Sindh Chapter has issued report on human rights situation for the month of May 2009. According to report, 215 persons including 40 women were killed under honor killing in the province in May 2009. 20 women/girls were gang raped, noses of 2 women were chopped off, 3 were burnt with acid throwing and head hair of 3 were shaved.3 slain women were burnt without coffins. Despite passage of Women Protection Bill by parliament, state took no step to provide protection to women and they continued to be killed, raped, humiliated and meted out inhuman treatment and degraded. Despite obligation of Pakistan under CEDAW state failed to prevent violation against women rather it is met with government silence and apathy. (In Sindh women are not given equal rights rather they are treated like animals. They are subjected to violence.95% of these do not raise voice and tolerate violence out of fear of break up of families. Majority of them turn to mental. In Sindhi society women subjected to violence and torture prefer to commit suicide. Government of Pakistan has passed Tahfiz Niswan ( women protection) Bill but this law could not prevent atrocities and violence against women. Shaista Almani, Dr. Shazia Khalid, Nasima Libanu, Kainat Soomro and others could not get justice nor protection. These Sindhi girls continued to cry for justice from press club Karachi to media- Ms. Humaira Alwani MP).According to report of PHRT one women Reehana of Pano Akil was drowned in Indus river after murder while Babli Lashari, resident of Shikarpur district, was buried without coffin in another district Kambar. She had got refuge at women police station Sukkur out of danger to life but woman police office Rukhsar Mangi handed her to her brother who killed her. Police, after her murder, named 3 persons Akbar Almani, Noor Muhammad and Ali Gohar as her husbands. 3 girls/women were burnt to death by family males. These include a 5 year old girl in Moro, a 14 year old girl and a married woman in Jaccobabad. Two women were killed in police custody. One Mir Khatoon who had sought divorce from husband was killed by him while she was sitting in police mobile outside court in Sanghar. Another woman was killed also in police mobile in Mirpurkhas. Police instead of protection woman ran for their lives.A newly born boy of 5 days was killed by his father calling him as illegal in Bandhi district Nawabshah. Husbands of 2 women, one in Ghotki district and other in Umerkot town chopped off their noses for violating family honor. 2 women were injured brutally by throwing acid on their naked bodies after rape. One among them was mother of 9.An 8 years old girl in Sobhodero in Khairpur district and another a 13 year in Hyderabad city were kidnapped and then forcibly married to old men. The perpetrators shaved of head hair of 2 women after rape as mark of inhuman treatment: One was in Larkana city mother of 5 while the other was in Mathelo in Ghotki district. Families of both left their homes out of terror as police failed to arrest culprits. 2 sisters in Seerani town of Badin district were repeatedly kidnapped and raped by local influential persons. Police did not move as such their families migrated to safer place. In Dadu father and son both raped a widow. In many cases of rape police not only did not take action but sided with perpetrators pressurizing the victim to withdraw report. In a village in Naseerabad an old woman was beaten to death by police party that had raided the village. Her murder went unheard. 6 persons were kidnapped by secret agencies during May 20009 and missing. These include Abdul Wahab from Tando Jam, Zubair from Kambar and Ramzan, Ayub, Sher Khan and Ghulam Mustafa from Dadu. Meanwhile all claims of government to reducing poverty proved empty despite receiving huge funds from world bank, as at least 6 persons were reported to have brought their children in markets for sale out of poverty and hunger. These include Mirza Ali in Moro, Moulvi Mir Muhammad Chandio in Mithiani and 4 employees of Army Sugar Mill Badin who also brought their children for sale in Badin bazaar. They were among hundreds of workers who were terminated from employment by the sugar mill management. During the month in question 43 people were kidnapped majority of them belonged to Hindu minority community. Out of them two Hindu traders one Mahendar who was kidnapped along with two other Hindus from Rohri was killed by kidnappers. The relatives of remaining two got their family members released on payment of ransom. Another Hindu trader Ramesh Kumar who was kidnapped along with 6 persons including 3 Hindus was also killed by kidnappers who threw his dead body at gate of police post. Almost all those kidnapped got release by making payment of ransom to kidnappers either through police or politically influential persons. Upper Sindh districts of Larkana, Jaccoabad, Shikarpur, Sukkur and Ghotki remained in grip of crimes of kidnapping, robberies and murders. No day passed when trucks and buses were not looted on two main highways of Upper Sindh: from Sukkur to Larkana and Sukkur to Shikarpur. Police was not seen moving to recover the kidnapped persons or looted properties. Hindu community who are mostly traders and businessmen started to migrate to India after state failure to protect their lives and properties. The government asked Hindus to take up arms to protect themselves instead of directing police to protect them.22 persons including 6 women committed suicide being fed up with poverty, hunger and unemployment. The month of May 2009 witnessed continued load shedding of electricity in Sindh. The heat wave which touched around 50 degrees Celsius coupled with power outage of 12 to 16 hours daily claimed as many as 27 persons mostly women and children. This speaks of inefficiency on part of government which failed to provide electricity and adequate drinking water to its citizens. Those who died of suffocation in absence of electricity and heat included:Ms. Porhi in Matli, Harichand in Nawabshah, Ajib Gul, Noor Ahmnedn and Naveed Soomro in Khairpur, 5 years old daughter of Chhutal Nangraj in Kotri, Subhan Khatoon, mother of Ghulam Rasool and wife of Abdul Rashid in Kandhra village.3 children Aroosa, Shaista and Umer in Kohistan, 8 years Farhan and 10 years Niaz Khaskheli in village Kalro in Thatta district,an old man Bangal Kalhoro in Golo Wahan, an elderly woman Lal Khatoon Soomro in Agra, Ismail and Akbar in Pangrio, 7 years Nawaz Ali and 6 years Bilqees and one and a half year old Najma Halo in Jhimpir district Thatta,Shaukat in Mirwah Gorchani, and 8 years Farhan Sanjrani and Lajpat in Khipro district Sanghar. Police in Mirpurkhas city victimized a woman activist, professor of Sindh University and an outspoken leader of Women Action Forum Ms. Amar Sindhu by arresting his two brothers one an advocate Haji Qalandar Bux and then disappearing him. He was recovered in a judicial raid. Police also injured and arrested his another brother Najaf Leghari an activist of a political party by hitting police van to his motor cycle.. During month of May 2009, 206 primary school teachers of Hyderabad district observed hunger strike for more than a month against non payment of salaries to them for 8 months. When they approached secretary of education department Rizwan Memon during his visit to Hyderabad they were arrested and put to police lock up. They ended their hunger strike fearing more victimization.We urge authorities of Pakistan to take measures to stop and prevent human rights violations in Sindh and violence against women which is worst in whole world