By: Joanna Hoffman, Special Projects Manager
Last week, 22 year-old Storai Mohammed was strangled to death by her husband and mother-in-law for giving birth to a girl, and not the son they had demanded of her. Her husband fled, but his mother was detained and told police that Storai “felt guilty” for bearing three daughters and committed suicide.
In Afghanistan, as in many parts of the world, newborn sons are celebrated while girls are met with disappointment, fewer opportunities and a stifling lack of autonomy. Read more...

New Brunswick, New Jersey -- On November 25, 2011, the 
On 24 February 2011, the United Nations’ celebrated the historic launch of