On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks became the symbol of the civil rights movement when she chose to challenge an unjust law in the Jim Crow South by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
On July 6, 2009, Sudan's Lubna Hussein also found herself challenging injustice when she and a group of 12 women were arrested in a restaurant in the capital of ''Khartoum''. Their official crime was a violation of Article 152 of Sudan's criminal law: "conduct or clothing in violation of public decency." But what did they actually do? They wore pants in public. The punishment: 40 lashes and a fine.
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