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Address: Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Human Rights Centre for Women, Sector H-8/1, St # 04, Pitrass Bukhari Road, Near City School, Ministry of Human Rights, Islamabad. Contact: Manager Numbers:- 051-9101256, 9101257, 9101258. Helpline — 1099 for free legal advice website: Punjab
The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre (TRCC), officially known as Toronto Rape Crisis Centre / Multicultural Women Against Rape, is a rape crisis centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the city's only such facility. [1] It runs a 24/7 crisis line and provides free counselling, [2] [3] and is one of 42 rape crisis centres in the province of Ontario. [4]
The first women's shelter in the modern world was Haven House, which opened in 1964 in California. [53] An early women's shelter in the United States, Emergency Shelter Program Inc. (now Ruby's Place inc.), was established in Hayward, California, in 1972 by a local group of women who attended church together.
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The percentage of women who have been raped in the United States is between 15% and 20%, with various studies disagreeing with each other. (National Violence Against Women survey in 1995, 17.6% rate; [13] a 2007 Department of Justice study on rape found 18% rate [14]). About 500 women were raped per day in the United States in 2008. [10]
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Only 48% of the Mercer inmates could read and write, compared to a 92% rate amongst women in Toronto at the time. [11] A common disease among the women was syphilis, which led to a separate ward for syphilis at the reformatory. A report in the 1880s described "disease-ridden inmates, deaths and still-born infants in the nursery."