Survivor

“Both men and women are becoming less hostile to what I am saying, and in fact they agree with me more often.”

Elena Zolotilova, psychologist, Rostov, Russia

Survivor, St Petersburg, Russia

Evgenia

“I was unconscious for three days once after he banged my head against the toilet.”

Name: Evgenia
Age: 26

Survivor, Elshorafa, Egypt

Rasha

“It felt like I was being torn to pieces!”

Name: Rasha
Age: 14

It was a black day. When I got home there was a strange woman there. They held me down and it hurt. It felt like I was being torn to pieces!
The way I feel now is that not everything that people say is true and real, grown-ups don’t know everything. Some of them don’t know anything.

It was done so that we girls will grow up quickly and become modest. But we aren’t modest, we’re just scared.

Survivor, São Gonçalo, Brazil

Rosângela

Survivor, São Gonçalo, Brazil

Rosângela

“I was a victim, but I’m not a victim now.”

Name: Rosângela
Age: 42

Survivor, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Gulnaz

Survivor, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Gulnaz

“The man who threw the acid over me only spent six months in prison.”

Name: Gulnaz
Age: 43

Survivor, Cairo, Egypt

Martha

Survivor, Cairo, Egypt

Martha

“I have to have money so I can protect my child.”

Name: Martha
Age: 14

It was dark. I learned that I could walk into the town centre to get something to eat and clean clothes but I always went back to the railway station. After a while I was arrested there and locked up. My father came and got me and took me back to Minya but I ran away again. I went back to the railway station and the boys and girls there. I was better off there.

I don’t know what the future holds.