Acid Attacks

Prominent Pakistani Acid Victim Commits Suicide

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 03.28.2012

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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani acid attack victim Fakhra Younus had endured more than three dozen surgeries over more than a decade to repair her severely dam...

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A Pakistani Spring Must Find its Roots in its Investment in Women

Anisa Noormohamed | Posted 05.19.2012

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Anisa Noormohamed

I look to our fellow Muslims in the Middle East for inspiration, where the recent wave of revolutions was fueled by women bloggers, activists and professionals.

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Karzai Asks Us to Leave (Most of) Afghanistan, and We Should Listen

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.15.2012

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Mitchell Bard

What happens next is up to the Afghan people, not us. The country's president has asked us to leave. If he doesn't want us there, we shouldn't be there. In fact, we should beat Karzai's timetable and get most of our troops out of Afghanistan as soon as is safe and practical.

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Defacing Women: Acid Attacks on Film

Barbara Becker | Posted 05.07.2012

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Barbara Becker

The Academy Award-winning best documentary short Saving Face raises larger issues about this global human rights atrocity -- and how simple endings are seldom that easy.

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Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Ellie Knaus | Posted 05.06.2012

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Ellie Knaus

Documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a warrior for truth. And now, her documentary Saving Face, co-directed with Daniel Junge, is winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

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Back to Bangladesh -- Day 5

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.24.2011

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Christy Turlington Burns

Acid violence is a form of vengeance for other types of social conflicts like disputes over land. In most cases the women, young and adolescent girls and girl children are the victims.

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Acid Attacks: An Eye for an Eye

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.18.2011

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Shirin Sadeghi

Mahatma Gandhi once famously said that "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" -- and he was right, of course, but he had never been the victim of an acid attack.

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One Woman's Mission: Empowering World's Poorest Girls to Transform World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

I first met Jin In off a snowy sidewalk near Bryant Park in New York City this past winter. She just returned from Nepal, energized. There, she was ...

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Pakistan Set to Pass Landmark Bill to Combat Acid Terrorism

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

While passage of Pakistan's Acid Control and Burn Crime Prevention Bill is certain, it remains to be seen whether the government will make a sincere attempt to implement and enforce this legislation.

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Favorite Friends I've Never Met

Vicky Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vicky Collins

Because of social networking I have a new circle of virtual friends who I enjoy and respect, even though we have never met or for that matter, may never meet.

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Afghan Schoolgirls Describe Acid Attacks (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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MSNBC has a powerful video on young girls in Afghanistan who were attacked with acid for going to school. The girls describe the attack and how it has...

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