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Rearranged with...Honor
Mukhtar Mai
Pakistan
Mukhtar Mai Women Welfare Organization
Purchase her book: In the Name of Honor
News of the attack on Mukhtar sent shock waves
across Pakistan, where sexual assault and violence
against women is commonplace. Mai, a 30-year-old
woman who lives in the remote hamlet of
Meerwala, was brutally and publicly gang-raped in
June 2002 by four volunteers on the orders of a
village court, or jirga.
Our Expert
Azam Kamguian
Iran (now living in England)
www.azamkamguian.co.uk
Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the
Middle East
www.bikhodayan.com
Azam is an Iranian writer and women's rights
activist. She started political activities as a socialist
in 1976 and was a medical student at Pahlavi
University in Shiraz until arrested and imprisoned
for a year for organizing student protests. After
her release from a second prison term, Azam
organized several campaigns in defense of
women's rights in the Middle East and advocated
Middle Eastern women's rights. Currently, she lives
and works in London, England.
Rearranged with...Honor
Mukhtar Mai
Pakistan
Mukhtar Mai Women Welfare Organization
Purchase her book: In the Name of Honor
News of the attack on Mukhtar sent shock waves
across Pakistan, where sexual assault and violence
against women is commonplace. Mai, a 30-year-old
woman who lives in the remote hamlet of
Meerwala, was brutally and publicly gang-raped in
June 2002 by four volunteers on the orders of a
village court, or jirga.
Our Expert
Azam Kamguian
Iran (now living in England)
www.azamkamguian.co.uk
Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the
Middle East
www.bikhodayan.com
Azam is an Iranian writer and women's rights
activist. She started political activities as a socialist
in 1976 and was a medical student at Pahlavi
University in Shiraz until arrested and imprisoned
for a year for organizing student protests. After
her release from a second prison term, Azam
organized several campaigns in defense of
women's rights in the Middle East and advocated
Middle Eastern women's rights. Currently, she lives
and works in London, England.
Rearranged with...Humanity
Niemat Ahmad
Darfur, Africa
The Save Darfur Coalition
“In Darfur, rape is a tactic of war,” Niemat Ahmadi
says, “ and mutilations and murders of civilians are
regular occurrences.”
“We have a saying in my village, "The woman has
no enemies,' ” she said. “This is no longer the
case. Women have been targeted to bring down
our society and strip away our dignity.”
Ahmadi, a 37-year-old former resident of Darfur,
has been making presentations with The Save
Darfur Coalition, trying to raise awareness and
push governments to end the genocide, to share
her experiences and inspire the students to get
involved.
Our Expert
Samantha Power
Author of A Problem from Hell:
America and the Age of Genocide
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and
New York Times Best Seller
Samantha Power is The Anna Lindh Professor of
Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Susan's New Yorker article on the horrors in
Darfur, Sudan won the 2005 National Magazine
Award for best reporting. She was the founding
executive director of the Carr Center for Human
Rights Policy. From 1993-1996, she covered the
wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the
U.S. News and World Report, The Boston Globe,
and The Economist. Power is the editor, with
Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving
from Inspiration to Impact.
Niemat Ahmad
Darfur, Africa
The Save Darfur Coalition
“In Darfur, rape is a tactic of war,” Niemat Ahmadi
says, “ and mutilations and murders of civilians are
regular occurrences.”
“We have a saying in my village, "The woman has
no enemies,' ” she said. “This is no longer the
case. Women have been targeted to bring down
our society and strip away our dignity.”
Ahmadi, a 37-year-old former resident of Darfur,
has been making presentations with The Save
Darfur Coalition, trying to raise awareness and
push governments to end the genocide, to share
her experiences and inspire the students to get
involved.
Our Expert
Samantha Power
Author of A Problem from Hell:
America and the Age of Genocide
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and
New York Times Best Seller
Samantha Power is The Anna Lindh Professor of
Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Susan's New Yorker article on the horrors in
Darfur, Sudan won the 2005 National Magazine
Award for best reporting. She was the founding
executive director of the Carr Center for Human
Rights Policy. From 1993-1996, she covered the
wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the
U.S. News and World Report, The Boston Globe,
and The Economist. Power is the editor, with
Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving
from Inspiration to Impact.
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