Souad: *~1962
Burned Alive, 2003 - Background
- Honor Crime
- The honor crime is not associated with any religion; it has its base in the patriarchal system and can exist all over the world.
- Thousands of Women Killed for Family "Honor", National Geographics, February 12, 2002
- Honor crimes may give insight into terrorism: Is there a connection between the oppression of women in many Muslim societies and Islamist terrorism? by Andrea Simakis. August 15, 2004
- Patriarchal System
- Genital Mutilation, which is mainly based on the patriarchal system.
- Female Genital Mutilation. World Health Organization
- About genital mutilation, Waris Dirie, who is mutilated too, writes, "In spite of my anger over what has been done to me, I don't blame my parents. I love my mother and father. My mother had no say-so in my circumcision, because as a woman she is powerless to make decisions. She was simply doing to me what had been done to her, and what had been done to her mother, and her mother's mother. And my father was completely ignorant of the suffering he was inflicting on me; he knew that in our Somalian society, if he wanted his daughter to marry, she must be circumcised or no man would have her. My parents were both victims of their own upbringing, cultural practices that have continued unchanged for thousands of years."
from: Waris Dirie: Desert Flower, New York, 1998. - Razor's Edge: The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation. IrinNews (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs); March 8, 2005
- Video from the UN
- UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and UNICEF are working towards the elimination of female genital mutilation. This is a film made for the UNFPA/UNICEF Joint Programme by SafeHands for Mothers
- Female Genital Mutilation. A film by Women's Health and Culture Organisation. This film contains disturbing images