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From November 2008 to November 2009, police had recorded 468 cases of rape, attempted rape and sexual harassment, a 2.4 percent increase over the previous year. [63] Breaking the Silence – Sexual Violence in Cambodia is a report produced by Amnesty International , and released in 2010, which examined the situation of sexual violence in Cambodia.
Under British rule, modern Pakistan was primarily divided into the Sind Division, Punjab Province, and the Baluchistan Agency. The region also included various princely states, with the largest being Bahawalpur. [84] [85] The major armed struggle against the British in the region was the rebellion known as the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857. [86]
Christianity can be taxonomically divided into six main groups: Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Church of the East, and Restorationism. [ 364 ] [ 365 ] A broader distinction that is sometimes drawn is between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity , which has its origins in the East–West ...
A Pew Research Center survey revealed that California is somewhat less religious than the rest of the states: 62 percent of Californians say they are "absolutely certain" of their belief in God, while in the nation 71 percent say so. The survey also revealed 48 percent of Californians say religion is "very important", compared to 56 percent ...
In Arabic, Islam (Arabic: إسلام, lit. 'submission [to God]') [11] [12] [13] is the verbal noun of Form IV originating from the verb سلم (salama), from the triliteral root س-ل-م (), which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of submission, safeness, and peace. [14]
Water occurs as both "stocks" and "flows". Water can be stored as lakes, water vapor, groundwater or aquifers, and ice and snow. Of the total volume of global freshwater, an estimated 69 percent is stored in glaciers and permanent snow cover; 30 percent is in groundwater; and the remaining 1 percent in lakes, rivers, the atmosphere, and biota ...
By Q1 2018, over 383 million smartphones were sold with 85.9 percent running Android, 14.1 percent running iOS and a negligible number of smartphones running other OSes. [277] Android alone is more popular than the popular desktop operating system Windows, and in general, smartphone use (even without tablets) exceeds desktop use.