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#justicefornoura is the Movement Demanding Justice for Sudanese Women

It's in response to the plight of a Sudanese teenage girl sentenced to death for protecting herself against marital rape

Three years ago, south of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, 16 year old Noura Hussein was told that she was to be married to a stranger. She refused. Never could she have imagined the sequence of events since that day that led her to languish in Sudan's notorious Omdurman's women's prison and, as of today, death row

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