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When I visited the Women’s Crisis Centre in 2003, it was run by NGOs but funded by Pakistan’s Ministry of Women Development. It was located in a leafy suburb of the Pakistani capital, overrun with colorful vegetation. The quiet atmosphere in the sleepy neighborhood felt in sharp contrast with the violent stories that the activists running the Centre heard every day.
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Pope, N. (2012). Zahida. In: Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012661_7
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