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Acid and Fire Attacks on Women
"Let us look at two examples. One example is Sabir Sultana, 30, who was newly married and pregnant. Her husband thought that they had received a poor dowry from her parents - why he poured acid over the woman, who expected his children. The scars will stay with her forever, even after extensive plastic surgery. One of the worse examples I have heard of is Najaf Sultana, 16. Her father poured kerosene over her when she was fifteen and lit it, while she was sleeping. Her "crime"? She was of the wrong sex as he didn't want any more girls in the family. After the attack Najaf is now blind and abandoned by her parents. She now lives with relatives and has had at least fifteen plastic surgeries." "Let us look at two examples. One example is Sabir Sultana, 30, who was newly married and pregnant. Her husband thought that they... more
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Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
"Shake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter 2008). These students comprise the first edition of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project -- a group dedicated to acheiving this monumental task on an annual basis.
The Stanford Graphic Novel Project independently published several hundred copies of Shake Girl that we are using to create awareness about the issues of violence against women, and more specifically, the phenomenon of acid attacks in Cambodia. For these same reasons, we are publishing Shake Girl for free on the web. -- though we encourage readers to donate to charities that help ammend the human right violations that currently occur in Cambodia." "Shake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter... more
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