I try and start my Saturdays on a positive note.  I look at the CBC, a few Science Blogs usually something upbeat is going on.  Not today though.

With a hat-tap to Shakesville, I excerpt from the linked article:

“Acid attacks and wife burnings are common in parts of Asia because the victims are the most voiceless in these societies: They are poor and female. The first step is simply for the world to take note, to give voice to these women.” Since 1994, a Pakistani activist who founded the Progressive Women’s Association (www.pwaisbd.org) to help such women “has documented 7,800 cases of women who were deliberately burned, scalded or subjected to acid attacks, just in the Islamabad area. In only 2 percent of those cases was anyone convicted.”

I post one of 12 pictures representative of thousands of women who have been permanently disfigured by acid attacks by men.  When women are not people, when they cannot speak or be heard, when they have no rights…

Saira Liaqat, 26, poses for the camera as she holds a portrait of herself before being burned, at her home in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. When she was fifteen, Saira was married to a relative who would later attack her with acid after insistently demanding her to live with him, although the families had agreed she wouldn't join him until she finished school. Saira has undergone plastic surgery 9 times to try to recover from her scars.

They get male centric justice.