Mukhtaran Mai, who has been called the “Rosa Parks of Pakistan,” was in Chapel Hill last week speaking about violence against women. On June 22, 2002, elders of a Mastoi tribal council in her small Punjabi village of Meerwala ordered that she be gang-raped by four Mastoi men as a way of punishing her 12-year-old […]
Jenny Warburg
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Down to the Wire
If this is Sunday, it must be Ohio. As the presidential race entered its final full week, the John Edwards campaign spent Sunday on a bus tour of Ohio, a critical state for the Kerry-Edwards ticket. It started in Cincinnati at 9:35 a.m., when an entourage of four buses (one for the candidate, one for […]
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Aftermath
Photographer Jenny Warburg knows what a terrorist attack looks like. In 1995, she went to Oklahoma City to take pictures of the site where anti-government activists blew up a federal office building, killing 168 people. A political activist and former social worker, Warburg also knows what extremism looks like. Both as a contributing photographer for […]
