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A few corrections needed…

June 23rd, 2010

Again, Acid Survivors Foundation Pakistan would like to insist on the fact that as per the only data available in Pakistan, acid attacks in Pakistan mostly occur due to family (domestic violence) and land disputes and not due to religious reasons (the religious motive is minor in Pakistan), and victims are not invariably women. The majority of the victims are women but to date, 36% of the victims notified by ASF-Pak are men.

You can read the article ON:

www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2010statements/2540/Cached



Warning…

June 4th, 2010

Acid Survivors Foundation can only guarantee the relevance of its data and the ones stated in ASF statistics but does not give any guarantee of any kind for whatever is published in various articles, books, magasines, etc… as :

- mistakes do occur frequently in the journalists statements

- some organisations do not necessarily follow a protocol of verification and liaison for notification/identification/tracing of acid attacks, do not necessary have reliable sources of information.

The figures of 8886 acid survivors since 1994 in Pakistan, is not an information that we will validate for the time being as it does not correspond to any data we came across so far. If any such new data is available, we would study it and of course would uodate ours accordingly and disseminate the information,

VKY, ASF Chairperson.