See this article in the New York Times today: women and girls who flee to a shelter could have to defend their decision before a government panel, and could be sent back home to an honor killing, domestic violence, or other uncertain fate. Does this remind our class of some practices we read about in the book Half the Sky?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/world/asia/11shelter.html?hp
Susan Pearce