14-year-old Huma Yousef , a victim of kidnapping and forced marriage in Pakistan. Image© Aid to the Church in Need
A new initiative is about set to launch in Pakistan, to help tackle the growing crisis of Christian and Hindu girls being abducted and sexually abused in the country. Pakistan’s Movement for Solidarity and Peace say as many as 1,000 Christian and Hindu girls and women between ages 12 and 25 are abducted each year, but underreporting and other issues with police make advocates concerned the scale of the problem could be much greater.
