#acid attacks

According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau data, there were more than 1,000 acid attack cases reported in the country between 2017 and 2021. The numbers fell from 249 attacks and 67 attempted attacks in 2019 to 176 attacks but 73 attempted attacks in 2015.

Ritu Saini (foreground), 21, and Rupa, 23, enjoy the monsoon rains atop a roof in Agra, India, in 2016. Both women are survivors of acid attacks. Hundreds of women and girls a year have been injured by acid in India. Formerly a volleyball player, Ritu was attacked by her cousin. After several reconstructive surgeries, she lost her left eye. Rupa was attacked when she was 15. The group Stop Acid Attacks advocates for policies to help acid-attack survivors  — at Agra, India. Photo credit: Stephanie Sinclair

A study of violence, #1. “Acid Attack” by Sanya Torkmorad Jozavi

Just to confirm, this was written in 2018.

or finding a petition to sign. there’s no good me just going on about it on tumblr and no action being taken.

Post 7/7 after every single acid attack, still carried out by white, British males = I read on Breitbart that this only happens in those barbaric middle eastern countries. Ban all Muslims!!!

Students of Acid Attack Forgive Their Assailant: “Mental illness is not a choice”

They know they are trying to blind someone and mess said person’s face up for the rest of their life. Such a fate is worse than death. There is no place in this world for people who deliberately do such a thing.