Mukhtar May

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Mukhtar May 2005

Mukhtar Mai (also Mukhtaran Bibi , Mukhtiar or Mukhtaran ; Urdu مختاراں مائی Muḫtārāŋ Māʾī ; * 1972 in Meerwala ) is a Pakistani activist for women's rights .

Life

She is a member of the Tatla clan from Pakistan from the small and impoverished village of Meerwala, which is located in the Jatoi district in the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan . Mukhtaran Bibi was mass raped at the request of the village council of elders in revenge for an alleged relationship between her twelve-year-old brother and a daughter of the Mastoi clan . Her brother had previously been raped by members of the influential Mastoi clan.

Fearlessly showed Mukhtaran then their rapists to, rather than, as expected, suicide to commit to the " honor " to save her family. The perpetrators were then punished, but were acquitted again - except for one - in the review process . After another appeal , the case is pending and is attracting increasing public interest, which is why the Pakistani head of state felt compelled to comment in June 2005 by saying that it was an isolated case. (Otherwise it is actually an isolated case, because "normally" a raped woman is required to commit suicide in Pakistan. So Mukhtar Mai was an exception.)

Soon after she was raped, she used the compensation she received from the government to set up the Mukhtar Mai Foundation , medical care, free legal advice, accommodation for women, a clinic, a public library, and a school for girls and women one for boys. It also ensured that a police station was set up and Meerwala was connected to the local power grid.

In summer 2005 she was placed under house arrest by the Pakistani government when she wanted to report on the situation of women in Pakistan at the invitation of ai and the “Asian-American Network Against Abuse of Women” in the USA. After international protests, however, she was able to visit the United States in November for the Woman of the Year Award .

In February 2006, her autobiographical book, The Guilt of Being a Woman , was published in Germany .

Despite death threats that she has received from the Mastoi clan to this day, she has stayed in her home town "because nothing else would have changed in Meerwala".

In 2011 she was a member of a jury of renowned personalities who were involved in the selection of the universal logo for human rights .

Awards

  • International Committee for Women's Rights Prize, December 2002
  • Person of the Week, ABC News, October 2005
  • Woman of the Year Award from the magazine "Glamor" for her commitment against the oppression of women, November 2005 in New York, combined with prize money of 20,000 dollars. She wants to use the prize money to finance the work of her women's center in Meerwala.
  • North-South Prize , 2006

literature

  • with Marie-Thérèse Cuny: The guilt of being a woman (original title: Déshonorée , translated by Eléonore Delair). Droemer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-426-27396-8 .
  • Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn: Half the Sky: how women worldwide fight for a better future (With a foreword by Margot Käßmann . Original title: Half the Sky , translated by Karl Heinz Siber). Beck, Munich 2010, pp. 98-109, ISBN 978-3-406-60638-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The jury  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / humanrightslogo.net  
personal data
SURNAME May, Mukhtar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bibi, Mukhtaran; Mukhtiar; Mukhtaran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani Women's Rights Activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Sea whale