The Worldwide War against Women
May 15, 2008
Women make up greater than half of world’s population and they do two-thirds of the world’s work, earns one-tenth of the world’s income and own’s one-hundredths of the world’s property. Yet women are widely mistreated in many countries around the world. Many women are tormented, disrespected and abuse by their spouses children and even family members. This act of misconduct can mentally, physically and spiritually destroy a person from a stable well being. From my observation I think we need to educate individuals. Make them to understand that women are to be respected and treated as any equal human being in this world. They are somebody’s mother, wife, daughter, or blessing, we were made by this gold that is supposed to be cherished, appreciated, love and cared as valuable treasure that touched every child born.
These are some of my investigations as to how women are treated in foreign countries:
AFGHANISTAN: In the countryside,tribal leaders deploy religious police to enforce stringent controls on women’s behaviour.Many girls cannot attend school, and laws dictate that families murder their own women if they have been “dishonored” by rape during a war. One in seven mothers dies in childbirth.
CHINA: A culture that values boys more than girls, China has used advances in sonogram technology to help prospective parents to identify -and-abort female fetuses.Despite official government condemnation of the practice, the gap beween the numbers of male and female are widening.
NIGERIA: The penal code allows a man to “correct” his wife as long as the “correction” does not leave a scar or necessitate a stay of 21 days or more in the hospital.
India and Pakistan : If a groom and his family decide a bride’s dowry is too small, she may be persecuted or burned to death. Aborting female fetuses is still widespread in India.
KUWAIT: Although Kuwaiti women are now allowed to drive and no longer have rigid dress codes, they still cannot vote.Household maids,many from the Philippines, are often victims of abuse and murder.
LATIN AMERICA: A macho culture pervades most countries in Latin America, unofficially condoning wife abuse, rape and other form of violence against women.
MOROCCO : If a woman commits adultery, the law permits the husband to maim or kill her as punishment. Adulterous husbands are not punished.
NORWAY : Even though women dominate the political scene, they are still hired last, fired first , paid less than men, and held back from the top jobs.
PAKISTAN : In some regions, tribal council elders order ( and sometimes participate in) gang rapes to avenge a brother’s (real or imagined) crime. Domestic violence, acid throwing, burning,”honor”killings, and sex trafficking of young girls are common with no means of feelings towards a human beings, slaughtering women like animals.
RUSSIA : Wife beating is not against the law; husbands kill approximately 15,000 wives each year.
SAUDI ARABIA : A divorced woman may keep her children until they are seven 7 years old. Although she may visit them, the father’s relatives then raise the children.
SOUTH AFRICA : A women is raped every 83 seconds. Domestic work is the primary occupation for black women, and the average salary is about $80 per month.
THAILAND : Young rural women are kidnapped or bought from their parents for prostitution. An estimated 1 million women work in Thai brothels.
TURKEY : In some regions, young girls are killed by there fathers or brothers because they shame the family by going out with boys, choosing to marry an individual they love without consent of the family, or marring someone from a different sect .
UNITED STATES : On average, women earn 75 percent of what men earn in the same jobs, and a woman with a college degree earns about the same as a man who has completed one year of high school. Among single mothers, about 60 percent live in or near poverty.
CONGO AFRICA : In this country women and girls are treated as an object lesser than a human being, hundreds of thousands of women and children have been victims of mass rape, torture and genital mutilation, They are killed one y one by their own kind and destroyed by a country they call home. I was told that a women and her husband went in search of food for their seven young children who was home waiting with their hungry stomachs, they went to a nearby field when they were attacked by a gang soldiers of the forest, the women was raped in front of her husband by thirty men who then killed her husband, cut this body into three parts, raped her again knocked out her teeth, placed her to sit over a lighted fire, chopped her in the head leaving her to bleed to death with only her husband feet by her side,while they took the head and the torso. She survived to tell this horror story everyday of her life only because of the thought of her children at home waiting for her. When these so-called soldiers were asked why would they commit such cruelty to women there reply was “living in the Forest is a hard for them because they get lonely so when they are able to get sex they take it any way possible even if they have to kill anyone in their way, and that women are to obey a man because God says so, In some cases women and young girls are raped more than a hundred times in each household. Reports of large scale organized rape have come from other countries for example Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Liberia, Peru, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda.
I hope what I shared with you will make a difference in some one’s life and will also make a huge amount of change throughout the world as to how we treat women in society. Women bring lives into this world given by the gift of God no man can bring life but can surely take it . Keep our young children educated so that these issues would not affect our children’s future so that Worldwide War against women shall end.
Sara Lee
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There are cases of babies being raped in the Congo, babies… 10 months old - imagine that!
“CHRISTINE SCHULER DESCHRYVER: Babies. The last baby who was raped, it was in April. She was ten months old, so a very small baby. She was raped. The same gang raped the mother during two weeks. Then they came to Bukavu into my office. I wanted to bring the baby to the hospital, but she was so injured she died in my arms. Ten months—can you imagine that? And these people, these women in Congo, are just begging for life, not begging for money, just the right to live in their country safely.”
Read more, http://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/8/they_are_destroying_the_female_species
It sickens me that men in congo are doing such things. I recently watched a documentary on channel 13 that explored what men in some african nations are doing to babaies and teenagers..
Thanks Anand and Rakesk for your comments, Yes these are just some of the abuse that happens to Women around the world on a every day basis. Its not easy.
Guest,
It’s articles like yours that help us battle domestic violence. Keep pressing on! We will too.
thanks