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| India-Pakistan |
| Lahore gets first women-only auto-rickshaw to beat 'male pests' |
| 2015-04-11 |
| [DAWN] An environmentalist, fed up with being groped and harassed by male auto-rickshaw drivers, has launched her own service exclusively for women passengers and drivers in her home city of Lahore - with just the one rickshaw on the road so far. Zar Aslam, president of Pakistain's non-profit Environment Protection Fund, said she once narrowly escaped kidnapping by a rickshaw driver when she was a student, which triggered the idea of launching her "Pink Rickshaw" service. Pakistain is notorious for sexual abuse of women, euphemistically known as "Eve-teasing". Offenders often go unpunished within a legal system that can treat the victims as the guilty party. |
| Posted by:Fred |