Via IRIN:
When parents in Bangladesh fail to come up with a promised dowry for their newly married daughters things can get nasty.
Dowry-related violence – including torture, acid attacks and even murder and suicide – also stigmatizes women, the group says.
In the first half of 2009, 119 cases of dowry-related violence, including 78 deaths, were reported, said Ain O Salish Kendro, a local NGO working for human rights.
In 2008, 172 women were killed and the figure for 2007 was 187, ASK said, adding that there were at least five reported cases of women committing suicide in the first half of this year when dowries went unpaid.
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