New York Times Opinion video
Acid attacks on Pakistani women
Nicholas Kristof
Westerners associate terrorism in Pakistan with suicide bombers, but an emerging terrorist threat
for Pakistani women is acid attacks, often by their own husbands, Nicholas D. Kristof says.


http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/29/opinion/1194834033797/acid-attacks.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/opinion/30kristof.html
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Vocabulary:

Naeema Azar
Shahnaz Bukhari¡¦s group,
the Progressive Women¡¦s
Association
(www.pwaisbd.org)
terrorism
to focus on
RPGs
bombs
frightening forms
acid attacks
to imagine
presentable
human being
successful
real estate agent
decent salary
to divorce
idiot
fruit
to receive custody
in exchange for
large payment
to lie dozing
bottle of acid
flesh of cheeks
to fall off
to flee
to hear screams

 smoke was rising
to run about blindly
reconstructive surgery
to survive on charity
women's activist
to be arrested
lawyer
bastard
to be brought to the gallows
to be far from alone
to be a weapon of choice
spurned suitors
organization
to highlight
cases of violence
deliberate
to be set on fire
to be prosecuted
message
as good as saying
do not deserve
to bring donkeys
international violence against women act
to shine a spotlight on
brutality
to get serious about
to continue to spread
to live upstairs
to beat his wife
in the same way

Listening comprehension questions:
1. What are RPGs?
2. What was Naeema's husband like, according to the report, and where is he now?
3. What was the divorce agreement between Naeema and her ex-husband?
4. How did Naeema's face become disfigured?
5. What kind of support does Naeema now depend on?
6. What percentage of burnings of women documented by Shahnaz Bukhari's group have been successfully prosecuted?
7. What chilling story does the son tell about his father and the man who used to live upstairs from them?
8. What does the reporter, Nicholas Kristof, suggest other countries can do about this situation?

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