Stiletto Nation: a fight for all our futures
A recent cover of Time magazine features a photo of an 18-year-old Afghan girl whose face has been mutilated as punishment for running away from an arranged marriage. It's an important, vivid reminder of the ongoing violence and discrimination that confront too many women in the Middle East. Attacks like this are not rare. The United Nations estimates that 5,000 women are murdered each year by Muslim family members in “honor killings.”