"The war against women is waged routinely and globally. Equality of the
most basic kind cannot exist when a woman’s life and her words are
always worth less than a man’s. But in the darkness of the night, what
haunts us are not broken systems but the faces of the broken girls. So,
so many. All the time."
Protesters in Istanbul after the murder of 20-year-old student Özgecan Aslan in February. Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPA/Corbis
