The Acid Survivors Foundation is a Bangladeshi organization dedicated to raising awareness and preventing acid attacks. Acid attacks are a violent phenomenon that occur primarily in South Asian societies, such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and are almost always perpetrated by males against females. ...
It was founded in 1999 with support from UNICEF and the Canadian International Development Agency. In 2005 the co-founder Monira Rahman was granted the Human Rights Award of Amnesty International. It was able to reduce number of acid attacs about 40% since 2003. UNICEF logo The United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ... The Canadian International Development Agency is a Canadian government agency which administers foreign aid programs in developing countries. ... Amnesty International logo Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ...
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