Acid violence is the deliberate use of acid to attack another human being. The victims of acid violence are overwhelmingly women and children, and attackers often target the head and face in order to maim, disfigure and blind. The act rarely kills but causes severe physical, psychological and social scarring, and victims are often left with no legal recourse, limited access to medical or psychological assistance, and without the means to support themselves. Acid violence is a worldwide phenomenon that is not restricted to a particular race, religion or geographical location.
Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) is the only organisation anywhere whose sole purpose is to work towards the end of acid violence across the world. Recognising the need for local knowledge and expertise in order to combat acid violence effectively, ASTI founded and continues to support the development of five partner organisations in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pakistan, Nepal and Uganda. It also works with UN agencies, NGOs and strategic partners from across the world to increase awareness of acid violence and develop effective responses at the national and international level.
For more information and to support ASTI's work, please visit http://www.acidviolence.org/ or follow us on Twitter at acid_survivors
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
FOCUS | One Billion Rising
As economies collapse and the 99 percent struggles with less and less, as global warming increases, and fires, floods, drought abound, the violence against women and girls increases. They become targets. They become commodities, sold in many places for less than a cell phone.
FOCUS | One Billion Rising
FOCUS | One Billion Rising
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Hassiba Boulmerka: Defying death threats to win gold
"I remember it well," she says. "It was Friday prayers at our local mosque, and the imam said that I was not a Muslim, because I had run in shorts, shown my arms and my legs. He said I was anti-Muslim."
Boulmerka and her family started to receive death threats, graffiti appeared denouncing her as a traitor and she was forced to move to Berlin to continue her training.
BBC News - Hassiba Boulmerka: Defying death threats to win gold
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
A Murder at Paradise - NYTimes.com
“She put herself between the evil coming up the mountain,” said her father, the Rev. Paul Kritsch, “and the people at the other end.” The gunman opened fire on the ranger. At least two shots, one to Anderson’s head, the other to her torso, were enough to kill her. Barnes plunged into waist-deep snow. The next day he was found, dead of exposure and drowning, in the icy creek that drops quickly into a waterfall, the subject of countless pictures.
A Murder at Paradise - NYTimes.com
A Murder at Paradise - NYTimes.com
Thursday, January 12, 2012
BBC News - The French women who defied the Nazis and survived Auschwitz
Caroline Moorehead's book, A Train in Winter, takes a different approach to the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War.
In it she tells the story of a group of 230 French women deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau together in January 1943.
Only 49 of the women survived the infamous brutality of the concentration camp, but A Train in Winter is not a story about victims. Instead the book celebrates the spirit of resistance and friendship that persisted, despite the hardship, among these heroines of World War II.
BBC News - The French women who defied the Nazis and survived Auschwitz
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