News: February 2012 archives
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‘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
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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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
