"Women are survivors. According to the UN 2010 State of the World Population report, rape is increasingly used as a weapon of war. In 2002 some cities in South Africa showed that there has been an increase of 400% of rape.

The suffering women go through are inhuman, but their courage is steady. An estimated 100-140 million girls/women alive today have experienced genital mutilation, and three million girls are at risk annually.

There are higher percentages of crimes committed against women, and offenders are less likely to be prosecuted..."

'Nahid, you remember once you beat a man because he touched your body, but you were blamed, not him? Those men’s prey were always women’s bodies. Those hands that touched my breasts and back sometimes caused me to hate my body...'