Narrator, Kate Pendry. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007.
Summary:
"In June 2002, a dispute involving a question of honor between the Mai and Mastois clans in rural Pakistan was judged by a local tribal council. When Mukhtar Mai pleaded on her family's behalf, the local imam consented to her punishment as honor-revenge, and she was brutally gang-raped by four men from the Mastois clan. Although local tradition presumed that Mukhtar would commit suicide because she had been dishonored, this strong-willed peasant woman reported the rape to the local police. When they refused to do anything, a local journalist published her story, which soon erupted in a national controversy over the oppression of women under Islamic law. DISHONORED documents the remarkable story of Mukhtar Mai, whose demand for justice received media coverage worldwide, and which over the next few years led to a dramatic series of legal proceedings... Features interviews with Mukhtar Mai as well as a variety of human rights and women's rights activists, lawyers, government officials, politicians and journalists, all of which serve to illuminate the widespread abuse of women throughout the region" -- Container.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)263413685
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
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