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News: 2012 archives

• First Global UNiTE Youth Forum to End Violence against Women and Girls

  ‘From 22 to 24 May 2012, over 40 youth activists from across the globe will meet in Bangkok for the first Global UNiTE Youth Forum. The Forum is being organized by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s global campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women, to harness the leadership and engagement of young people in addressing violence against women and girls.’

  Posted on 18/05/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• MSc or PhD student with SPSS data analysis expertise wanted!

  Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) is looking for a MSc or PhD student who has experience using the SPSS data analysis package, to assist us with a research process for the second and final year of ASTI’s UN Trust Fund (UNTF) supported project, “Towards a comprehensive strategy to end burns violence against women in Cambodia, Nepal and Uganda.”

  Posted on 14/05/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ASTI’s visit to ASF - Uganda

  ASTI’s visit to ASF Uganda from 20th – 29th April!

  Posted on 04/05/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ASTI NEEDS RUNNERS!

  ASTI needs 6 runners for the British 10k run that will take place on Sunday 8th July at 9.35am and it promises to be something very special

  Posted on 03/05/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Man charged with murder for acid attack’

  ‘SELAYANG: A young wireman was charged in the magistrate’s court today with the murder of an accounts clerk in a suspected acid attack.’

  Posted on 27/04/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Pakistani women’s lives destroyed by acid attacks’

  ‘Campaigners in Pakistan say cases of acid attacks are increasing in most areas, even though tougher penalties were introduced last year. An Oscar-winning Pakistani documentary has put the crime under the spotlight, but it is estimated that more than 150 women have acid thrown on them every year – usually by husbands or in-laws – and many never get justice. The BBC’s Orla Guerin reports.’

  Posted on 20/04/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Special thanks to Mrs. Jane Hurd and her Choir!

  ASTI would like to thank Mrs. Jane Hurd and her Choir for raising money for our cause by organising a Mere Gracenotes Concert on 17th March 2012!

  Posted on 17/04/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Years After Acid Horror, Suicide Stirs Pakistan’

  ‘KARACHI, Pakistan — Fakhra Younas went under the surgeon’s knife 38 times, hoping to repair the gruesome damage inflicted by a vengeful Pakistani man who had doused her face in acid a decade earlier, virtually melting her mouth, nose and ears.’

  Posted on 11/04/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘NEPAL: Women survive violence with help from rural Nyaya health clinic’

  ‘(WNN) Rural Achham, NEPAL: She was brought in an ambulance to one of the most rural hospitals in Nepal – the Bayalpata Hospital. Unconscious and badly bruised, she was a typical case of domestic violence. We accepted her into our hospital. But even before she had regained full consciousness she left the hospital to rescue her husband who had been kept behind the bars for beating her up.’

  Posted on 10/04/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Acid attack: Petitioners ask court to try Fakhra Younus case again’

  ‘KARACHI: A petition has been filed in the alleged acid attack case of Fakhra Younus, a woman who committed suicide in Italy last month after undergoing up to 39 surgeries to correct the disfiguration from an acid attack.’

  Posted on 10/04/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Two Afghan Children Killed In Acid Attack ’

  ‘GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Afghan officials say a girl and a boy have been killed in an acid attack in central Afghanistan.’

  Posted on 05/04/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Pro-women laws take hold in Pakistan

  ‘Women in Pakistan have faced formidable challenges in their efforts to achieve gender equality and address gender-based violence in their country, with particular problems posed by elements among customary norms and practices’

  Posted on 29/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Salford mother hurt in Pendleton racist acid attack’

  A Salford woman had acid thrown at her in a racist attack as she pushed her baby in a pram along a street.

  Posted on 26/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Woman attacked with acid in Manchester racist attack’

  A woman was attacked with acid as she walked with her six-month-old baby in a racist attack in Salford.

  Posted on 26/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Film on disfiguring acid attacks gets Women’s Day TV premiere’

  Pakistani women focus of Oscar-winning documentary short Saving Face

  Posted on 22/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• UK PREMIERE OF SAVING FACE and Q&A 28-29 March | Curzon Soho and Ritzy Cinema

  Curzon Soho: Wednesday 28 March, 18.40 and Q&A
  Ritzy: Thursday 29 March, 21.15 and Q&A
  To buy tickets please click here

  Posted on 21/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• Department for International Development (DFID) is providing support to ASTI

  The UK’s Aid Agency, the Department for International Development (DFID) is providing support to ASTI for development work in South Asia

  Posted on 21/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Saving Face for Pakistan’

  ‘KARACHI, Mar 16, 2012 (IPS) by Zofeen Ebrahim – By winning an Oscar at this year’s Academy awards, filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has brought home the genius of Pakistan’s women as well as the extreme violence they often suffer in a male-dominated society’

  Posted on 20/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• HRH the Princess Royal supports ASTI

  ASTI expresses its gratitude!

  Posted on 20/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Saving Face for Pakistan’

  ‘KARACHI, Mar 16, 2012 (IPS) by Zofeen Ebrahim – By winning an Oscar at this year’s Academy awards, filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has brought home the genius of Pakistan’s women as well as the extreme violence they often suffer in a male-dominated society’

  Posted on 19/03/12 in Media coverage • Read full article

• HRH The Princess Royal, Royal Gala Charity Dinner picture gallery

  To see the gallery from this event please follow this link

  Posted on 19/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ASTI’s Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, is Guest of Honour at a Royal Gala Charity Dinner

  ASTI launched its partnership with Islamic Help with a Royal Gala Charity Dinner in Birmingham on 13th March 2012. ASTI’s Patron, HRH The Princess Royal was the Chief Guest; she delivered a keynote address in which she spoke of the important progress that has been made in bringing attention to the global phenomenon of acid violence and she congratulated ASTI and Islamic Help on their plan to join forces in helping survivors of acid violence, across the world.

  Posted on 19/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Punjab decides stern action against acid attacks

  Punjab Government has decided to take solid measures against acid attacks and called them terrorism

  Posted on 15/03/12 in Media coverage • Read full article

• Islamic Help and ASTI launched the official partnership!!

  Please follow this link to see the video which launched the partnership!

  Posted on 15/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Royal Gala Charity Dinner

  Special event organised by Islamic Help in support of acid burns survivors and to launch the partnership between Islamic Help & Acid Survivors Trust International!!

  Posted on 13/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• The UN Commission on the Status of Women Conference

  ASTI organised a Panel discussion on acid violence at the recent UN Commission on the Status of Women conference at the UN in New York. The Panel was held on 1st March and its theme was: “The plight of rural girls and women who have been subjected to acid violence – where acid is deliberately thrown in order to wound and scar – and the importance of international policies in the struggle to end violence against women and girls.”

  Posted on 13/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Saving Face’ screening at the Good Pitch event Hague

  Screening will take place on March 27 2012, Theater aan het Spui, Hague

  Posted on 09/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• ‘Oscar-Winning ‘Saving Face’ Directors’ Battle to End Horror of Acid Attacks’

  ‘The directors of this year’s Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Short detail the violent acid attacks that destroy women’s lives from Pakistan to Cambodia to the U.S.—and a new campaign to combat the brutal practice.’ by Shakthi Jothianandan, the Daily Beast, March 8 2012

  Posted on 08/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• International premiere of Saving Face by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge

  International premiere of the extended version of the Oscar winning documentary Saving Face by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge to take place on March 26th!

  Posted on 08/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• ‘Defacing Women: Acid Attacks on Film’

  ‘Academy Award-winning best documentary short Saving Face is, on its surface, a hero’s journey involving a successful native son who returns to his homeland to tackle a seemingly insurmountable social ill.’ by Barbara Becker, The Huffington Post, March 7th 2012

  Posted on 08/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• U.S. Awards Ugandan Women of Courage - Human Rights Category Winner

  Prudence Komujinya, Board Member, Acid Survivors Foundation has worked with ASFU as a caseworker to interview acid attack survivors, document their oral testimonies, and coordinate government agencies and civil society organizations to help survivors access services. To watch the video please follow this link.

  Posted on 07/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Combating Acid Violence in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India’

  ‘Launch event: In January 2011, Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School, the Committee on International Human Rights of the New York City Bar Association, the Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic and Virtue Foundation released a new report that examines acid attacks in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India.’ virtuefondation.org January 27, 2012

  Download: /uploads/files/Virtue_Foundation_Combating-Acid-Violence-Report-2011.pdf

  Posted on 07/03/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ASF calls for legislation to eradicate acid and burn crimes

  ‘ISLAMABAD – After the issue was highlighted globally through the Oscar Award winning documentary Saving Face, Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) Pakistan has called for a comprehensive legislation to eradicate acid and burn crimes from the country.’

  Posted on 05/03/12 in Media coverage • Read full article

• Saving Face trailer and the Press Release

  ‘Saving Face’ Oscar Winning Documentary.

  Posted on 02/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• The Saving Face Documentary

  On Around the World, Christiane Amanpour speaks with Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy about her film, which can be seen on HBO, Thursday March 8th, International Women’s Day

  Posted on 02/03/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• ‘Cooperation Between ASF-Pakistan, ASTI and UN WOMEN’

  ‘Pakistan’s first Oscar win explores efforts to end acid violence in Pakistan’

  Posted on 29/02/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Donations to ASTI and our in-country partners

  The trainings, care and support facilitated by ASTI and its partners is hugely beneficial to those in greatest need and is made possible by individuals and organisations who generously contribute their time and resources.

  Posted on 29/02/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Pakistan’s Oscar triumph for acid attack film Saving Face’

  ‘Film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s triumph in becoming the first Pakistani to win an Oscar has been greeted with jubilation in her home country’

  Posted on 29/02/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• ‘Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy launches anti-acid campaign’

  ‘KARACHI: Pakistan’s first Oscar winner launched a campaign on Tuesday, hoping that her documentary about survivors of acid attacks can help eliminate a crime that disfigures hundreds of women each year.’

  Posted on 29/02/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• ‘Pakistani film follows survivors of acid attacks’

  ‘ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani women who survive revenge-based acid attacks are, in the words of one, the “living dead.” But their stories take on new life in the Oscar-winning documentary “Saving Face,” which follows two victims with disfiguring acid injuries as they attempt to reclaim their dignity and identities.’

  Posted on 29/02/12 in 'Saving Face' Oscar Winning Documentary • Read full article

• Facing up to Acid Attacks PRESS RELEASE: February 23, 2012

  An Oscar nominated documentary film Saving Face, about the plight of two young women in Pakistan who have been attacked with acid, brings to public attention the issues that the UK-based Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) has been working on for over a decade.

  Posted on 23/02/12 in Media coverage • Read full article

• ASTI to appear at The Commission on the Status of Women conference in New York

  ACID ATTACKS – VIOLENCE AGAINST RURAL WOMEN AND GIRLS UN CSW Panel discussion is to take place on Thursday 1st March 2012 between 2.30pm to 4.00pm

  Posted on 13/02/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Saving faces in Pakistan

  ‘When he learned that there are 150 acid attacks a year in Pakistan, plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad went there to help repair the damage done to the victims. Now he is the subject of an Oscar-nominated film’

  Posted on 13/02/12 in Media coverage • Read full article

• Tommy Miah, the Curry King, supports ASTI in Madrid on 21st April 2012!!

  ‘Tommy Miah will be opening a brand new cricket academy in Bangladesh next year and has requested help from Madrid CC to promote his academy by way of a benefit dinner on the Saturday night of our T20 tournament in La Manga Club Resort on 21st April 2012’

  Posted on 10/02/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Shocking plight of victims of barbaric acid attacks in Nepal

  ‘The plight of hundreds of women horrifically scarred by savage acid attacks in Nepal’

  Posted on 08/02/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ‘Uganda’s vendetta weapon - acid’

  KAMPALA — Outside the burns ward of Kampala’s Mulago hospital, Darlison Kobusingye adjusts the headscarf she uses to cover the scars on the right side of her face.

  Posted on 03/02/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• First cruel attack on a woman since new acid law has been introduced

  ‘A 23-year-old garment factory worker on Tuesday night became the first victim of an acid attack since a law was passed last year to better control access to acid and punish those who use it to attack others.’

  Posted on 03/02/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy dreams of Pakistan’s first Oscar

  ‘Film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has become the first Pakistani to win an Oscar nomination for best documentary in the short subject category.’

  Posted on 25/01/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary ‘Saving Face’ nominated for Oscars!

  KARACHI: Pakistani journalist and documentary film maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s latest film Saving Face has been nominated for Oscars in a Best Documentary, Short Subject category

  Posted on 24/01/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• Agony of an acid attack

  Two words that sum up Mulago hospital’s Burns Intensive Care Unit are agony and pain

  Posted on 20/01/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

• ASTI IS MOVING OFFICES!

  ASTI will be moving offices as of 16th January 2012.

  Our new address and contact details are as follows:

  Delta House
  175-177 Borough High Street
  London, SE1 1HR

  Our new contact telephone number is:

  0207 864 1457

  To see the map please click here.

  Posted on 10/01/12 in ASTI news

• Gender issues: Introduce ‘workable laws’ to change the mindset

  ‘ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cannot overcome gender-based issues without effective implementation of laws, changing common mindset and sensitisation of police and judiciaciary. This was the crux of a national consultation tiled “Gender-based legislation and issues of implementation” that concluded on Wednesday.’

  Posted on 06/01/12 in ASTI news • Read full article

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