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Can Corporations Help Stem Violence Against Women?

UNITED NATIONS -- "On the day of the attack I woke up before dawn ... before I could even say anything he threw the acid at my face and fled. I was rushed to the hospital; my face and body were burned severely. As a result I am blind in both eyes, I have lost both earlobes have gone through 16 skin grafting...

Afghan Police Make Arrest in Case of Disfigured Woman

(Dec. 7) -- Afghan police have made an arrest in an attack on a young woman who became a symbol of the cost of life under the Taliban when her disfigured face was featured on the cover of Time magazine. Bibi Aisha was still a teenager when, she says, her father-in-law cut off her nose and ears as her husband held her...

Woman Featured in Time Reveals Prosthetic Nose

(Oct. 12) -- Standing before an audience of politicians, advocates and admirers, an Afghan woman whose face was disfigured by her abusive husband wore a sophisticated prosthetic nose, revealing what she'll look like once ongoing reconstructive surgery is completed. Aisha, once known as "Bibi," was first introduced to the...

It's Not Just the Taliban in Afghanistan Who Brutally Oppress Women

(Aug. 16) -- Time magazine's Aug. 9 cover featured a shocking photo of an Afghan woman whose nose has been cut off and the title of the cover story: "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan." The implication was hard to miss: If the U.S. pulls out, it will be leaving the country to the Taliban, Islamic fundamentalists who...

Disfigured Afghan on Cover of Time Heads to US

(Aug. 5) -- A disfigured Afghan teen whose image has fast become the new face of the 9-year-old Afghan war -- and a harbinger of what could come if U.S. troops quit the country -- lands in America today for reconstructive surgery on her missing nose and ears. Doctors in California will try to rebuild 18-year-old Bibi...

Bibi Aisha News From the Web

05/20/12 Happy ending proves elusive for poster child of... Source: NBC - WPTZ NewsChannel 5 - Plattsburgh NY Without a knock, the office door flies open.

Background on Bibi Aisha

Bibi Aisha () (Bibi is a term of respect meaning "Lady") (birth name Aisha Mohammadzai, legal name Aesha Mohammadzai) is an Afghan woman whose mutilated face appeared on the cover of Time magazine in summer 2010. Her story first appeared in the Daily Beast in December 2009, which prompted doctors to write in offering to help her.

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