Acid Survivors Foundation

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The Acid Survivors Foundation is a Bangladeshi organization dedicated to raising awareness and preventing acid attacks.

It was founded in 1999 with support from UNICEF and the Canadian International Development Agency. ASF was one of the best outputs of international campaigns undertaken by the Commanding personality in the field of social reformation and human rights of modern Bangladesh, Nasreen Huq. In 2005 the co-founder Monira Rahman was granted the Human Rights Award of Amnesty International. It was able to reduce number of acid attacs about 40% since 2003.^{[citation needed]}

ASF initially began as a service delivery organization. Currently, it is in the process of moving towards a rights-based development organization.

1 Statistics
- 1.1 Acid attacks from 1999 to 2005
- 1.2 Comparative statistics of 2005 and 2006
2 External links

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Acid attacks from 1999 to 2005

Period	Number of incidents	Number of persons attacked
Period	Number of incidents	Women	Total
May-December: 1999	115	58	139
2000	172	98	235
2001	250	140	344
2002	366	219	487
2003	335	185	412
2004	266	180	325
2005	212	144	268

[edit] Comparative statistics of 2005 and 2006

Months	Number of incidents		Number of persons attacked
	2006	2005	Women	Men	Children (Under 18)	Total
	2006	2005	Women	Men	Children (Under 18)	2006	2005
January	10	10	7	3	4	14	12
February	12	16	9	2	2	13	19
March	12	14	12	2	4	18	18
April	13	18	8	7	2	17	22
Total	47	58	36	14	12	62	71