Honour Killings and Acid Attacks

"The girl’s parents, Mohammad Zafar and his wife Zaheen, recounted the Oct. 29 incident from jail. The father said the girl had turned to look at a boy who drove by on a motorcycle, and he told her it was wrong.

“She said ‘I didn’t do it on purpose. I won’t look again.’ By then I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way,” the girl’s mother told the British broadcaster."

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1282893--girl-killed-in-acid-attack-for-looking-at-a-boy-say-parents-it-was-her-destiny-to-die-this-way

How could someone care so little for the child that they have raised? Most of us would never even think of perpetrating something so heinous on our worse enemy, let alone our own child. So called "honour killings" have to stop! Girls around the world cannot continue to live in fear. We need to continue to talk about this and get it out into the open, so women around the world will empower themselves and their daughters. These women need to have tough penalties in place so their assailants will know that they will not get away with this.

How to fight for the rights of those in a country with pathetic human rights and even fewer rights for women? I don't know. The best I can think of is educating ourselves, keeping this topic in the media. We need to do something.