The February edition of a limited number of UK ‘Cosmopolitan’ magazines feature a chilling cover intended to raise awareness of honor-based violence.
The February edition of a limited number of UK ‘Cosmopolitan’ magazines feature a chilling cover intended to raise awareness of honor-based violence.
Designed by the Leo Burnett London advertising agency, the black and white image is of a woman in distress.
It’s wrapped with a plastic cover that makes it appear as if she is being suffocated.
The combination is a reference to the murder of Shafilea Ahmed, a 17-year-old British Pakistani female who was asphyxiated by her parents as her siblings watched.
Ahmed had refused to go through with an arranged marriage, and her life was taken because in doing so she had, in her family’s eyes, brought them shame.
The tragedy occurred in 2003, and nearly a decade later both her mother and father were sentenced to 25 years in prison.
A recent report revealed a serious lack of both educatio
