Women's Rights
All around the world, there are women being treated differently and unfairly. They are taken advantage of because they don’t have as much strength as a man. Women are treated differently everyday in many places. We should make a step together to equalize rights for women. Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery. They are refused access to education and political participation, and some are trapped in conflicts with rape and harassment.
According to a global poll conducted by Thomson Reuters, India is the fourth “most dangerous country” for women. In Pakistan, a 15 year old girl, Malala Yousafzai, was shot in the head by the Taliban. They shot her for promoting education for girls. In Pakistan, young girls aren’t allowed to go to school. In order for that to change, Malala spoke up and granted that young girls and women should be able to go to school for a good education. In a school bus, the Taliban suddenly marched in the bus and shot her in the head for being against the Taliban. She was brought to a hospital in Great Britain. She recovered and survived her major injury. On January 3, 2013 a 23 year old student was raped by a gang of 6 men, and passed away just last Saturday. The statistics are horrific. According to government estimates, almost every 20 minutes, a woman is raped in India. Unfortunately, rape isn't the only issue India’s women face. Women were practically slaves of their husbands, who often used them cruelly. Women had to cook, clean, wash clothes, and watch over the children. She was denied education and cultural development, often not allowed to step out of her home. If she did step out, she was veiled and could not interact with other people unless allowed by her husband.
Also, Iran's repressive government has long put limits on how women dress in public, and limited their rights in myriad ways. Girls as young as 13 can be forced into marriage and, regardless of their age, they need their father's permission to marry. Only men can initiate a divorce, and men automatically get custody of any children over the age of seven. Women can inherit only half as much as their brothers can, and their testimony in court is worth half that of a man.According to http://www.fordfoundation.org/issues/human-rights/protecting-womens-rights, they support efforts to fully implement laws and international commitments that address women's inequality and discrimination.
Statistics say that education is banned in over 90 percent of the country of Afghanistan. According to http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/taliban.html 309,000 children under five years of age die each year; the under-five mortality rate ranks fourth worldwide in Afghanistan. Below is a chart of Afghanistan’s rights for women. We should make a change together, and move forward to protect women’s rights! Men, women, children, animals, etc, should all be equal in the world!
According to a global poll conducted by Thomson Reuters, India is the fourth “most dangerous country” for women. In Pakistan, a 15 year old girl, Malala Yousafzai, was shot in the head by the Taliban. They shot her for promoting education for girls. In Pakistan, young girls aren’t allowed to go to school. In order for that to change, Malala spoke up and granted that young girls and women should be able to go to school for a good education. In a school bus, the Taliban suddenly marched in the bus and shot her in the head for being against the Taliban. She was brought to a hospital in Great Britain. She recovered and survived her major injury. On January 3, 2013 a 23 year old student was raped by a gang of 6 men, and passed away just last Saturday. The statistics are horrific. According to government estimates, almost every 20 minutes, a woman is raped in India. Unfortunately, rape isn't the only issue India’s women face. Women were practically slaves of their husbands, who often used them cruelly. Women had to cook, clean, wash clothes, and watch over the children. She was denied education and cultural development, often not allowed to step out of her home. If she did step out, she was veiled and could not interact with other people unless allowed by her husband.
Also, Iran's repressive government has long put limits on how women dress in public, and limited their rights in myriad ways. Girls as young as 13 can be forced into marriage and, regardless of their age, they need their father's permission to marry. Only men can initiate a divorce, and men automatically get custody of any children over the age of seven. Women can inherit only half as much as their brothers can, and their testimony in court is worth half that of a man.According to http://www.fordfoundation.org/issues/human-rights/protecting-womens-rights, they support efforts to fully implement laws and international commitments that address women's inequality and discrimination.
Statistics say that education is banned in over 90 percent of the country of Afghanistan. According to http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/taliban.html 309,000 children under five years of age die each year; the under-five mortality rate ranks fourth worldwide in Afghanistan. Below is a chart of Afghanistan’s rights for women. We should make a change together, and move forward to protect women’s rights! Men, women, children, animals, etc, should all be equal in the world!