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Japan's elderly women turn to prison for stability amid struggles
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Japan's prison system reflects the growing challenges faced by its elderly population. With many elderly women turning to crime for survival, prisons like Tochigi Women's Prison offer stability, companionship, and healthcare that they lack outside.
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800 women held in prisons in Afghanistan
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
As the Taliban's atrocities on women in Afghanistan continue in various forms, including suppression of their basic rights, a TOLOnews report highlighted how out of around 19000 people who are currently held under prisons in Afghanistan, at least 800 are women.
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Disturbing health crisis among women in Afghan prisons: UN report
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Highlighting the situation of Afghan women in prisons in a recent report, the United Nations has said that the women who are under confinement are having a detrimental impact on their health, Khaama Press reported.
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Pakistan: Women in prison subjected to discrimination, mistreatment
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
A woman's experience in prison is frequently one of suffering, injustice, and dashed hopes. Numerous Pakistani women are enduring a reality behind those jail walls that most of us can only comprehend. They fight a system that seems to have forgotten them every day in an effort to survive. Al
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Pakistan's prison report highlights massive scale of mistreatment of women
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 07 (ANI): Pakistan's Human Rights Ministry report highlighted the poor conditions of women in prisons as well as the massive scale of mistreatment meted out to them in jails and the need for broad and sustained reform, said US-based NGO Human Right Watch's Asia direc
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Centre plans to provide bail to undertrial women
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): As part of its recommendations in form of a report, titled 'Women in Prisons', the Ministry of Women and Child Development on Sunday sought relaxation in provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to allow bail to the undertrial women inmates in jai
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