Life but scientists worry a destruction in the food chain poses a threat to this habitat. Im melissa chant welcome to d. W. News asia its good to have you with us its a vicious type of assault meant to main scar and even kill im talking about acid attacks and you hear about them happening in many places by one estimate over fifteen hundred reported incidents take place around the world every year and women are often the targets in more than eighty percent of all cases and again thats only what gets reported its a crime indias been trying to address to through stricter chemical regulations and tougher punishments but that cant erase the scars the survivors of such attacks will carry their whole lives carmen meyer met one woman in india who took her tragedy and transformed it into empowerment. Of comic with an unconventional heroine the story of a young woman who has been attacked. She transforms from being a victim to being a super heroine a mission is to hope the survivors of asset att
give girls including her own daughter a different image of the world she s also a single mother which is far from the norm in india you see make believe me my dream hasn t yet come true but there has been a huge change these last few years. and that shows me that equality and the changes we re all talking about now will happen. with teens. laxmi wants to see an end to violence against women and spare future generations from the suffering she and others have endured how will she do it while the super heroine can help make it happen. joining me now is ron devon any one of the publishers of the comic book you just saw in the report so ron how has the story of laxmi of the acid attack been received. oh it s been universally