The Commission on the Status of Women is celebrating their 60th year by investigating women in Pakistan, especially those effected by (or who have the threat of being effected by) honour killings. To educate the audience and contextualize honour killings within Pakistan, the commission hosted a screening of Canadian director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Academy Award winning short documentary “a Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness”.
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar Nod.
Obaid-Chinoy earns an Oscar nomination for her chilling documentary short “a Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness”, which outlines the atrocious trend in Pakistan’s “honour killings”.
Lindsay Cooper 