Our challenge is to give voice to women whose experience goes unnoticed
and whose words go unheard. Much of the work
women do is not valued, not by economics, histories or government leaders. I want to speak up for
women who are raising children on the minimum wage, women
who can’t afford health care or child care, women whose lives are
threatened by violence, including
violence in their own homes.
I want to speak up for women who
are working all night as nurses, at hotel desks and as fast food chefs
so that they can be at home
during the day with their
kids and for women who
simply don’t have time
to do everything they are
called upon to do each day.
Most women work both inside and outside the home usually by necessity, there
is no formula for how women should lead their lives. We must respect the choices that each woman makes
for herself and her family. Every woman deserves
the chance to realize her God given potential.
Both women and men are
entitled to a range of
personal security to the
right to determine freely the number and
spacing of the children they bear No
one should be forced
to remain silent for fear
of religious or political
persecution, arrest abuse or torture.
Tragically women are most often the ones whose human rights are
violated. And when women are excluded from
the political process they become even more vulnerable to abuse.
I do not find acceptable to discuss women rights as separate from human rights
because:-
(a) It
is violation of human rights when babies are denied
food, drowned suffocated or
have their spines broken
simply because they are
born girls.
(b) It
is violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into slavery or
prostitution.
(c) It
is a violation of human rights
when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their
marriage dowries are deemed
too small.
(d) It
is violation of human rights when individual
women are raped in their
own communities and when
thousands of women are subjected to
rape as
a tactic or prize of war.
(e) It
is violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide
among women ages
fourteen to forty four is
the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.
(f) It
is violation of human rights when women
are denied the right to plan
their own families and that includes being forced
to have abortions or being sterilized
again their will.
We must need the call to
action so that we can create a world in which
every women is treated
with respect and dignity every
boy and girl is loved and cared for equally and every family has the
hope of a stable future.
1. Everything is fine but first thing is we need to educate both men and women about their rights.
ReplyDelete2. Women should be taught all the self defense tactics.
3. Women should know that they can say no to something that is oppressive.
4. Before two people are planing to marry, they can be from any walk of life, should be given proper education of family planning. The women should know how to keep herself healthy during and post pregnancy and how to keep herself safe from getting pregnant again when she is lactating. She should be given proper food and medicine during and after pregnancy.
5. Families should be given proper education so that they should not discriminate between a boy and a girl.
6. Child Marriage should be abolished as at tender age is not for marriage.
7. Marital rape should be taken into consideration as rape only and the husband should be given punishment. Most of the women face marital abuse silently as they are taught that the husband is the god all mighty and this belief should be removed completely. no one has the right to abuse a woman even if that person is her legally wedded husband or even live in partner or even paramour.
What ever I have said are right now in the most hypothetical stage as it is hardly followed by the educated forget the ones who do not have access to education. In the educated classes itself one can see the stark naked facts staring, the gender discrimination. Gender biased people want boys to to be born in the family any girl is taken as a burden. In the ones who are uneducated they give birth to have more hands to earn and they forget that more hands means more mouth to feed. At that time they sell their sons and mostly daughters who are then sold to the ones who maim them and make them beggars. As for girls, once she is 12 is sold in a brothel and then they get brutalized. Our society has changed completely these days porn can be seen and read too. Books are available that softly excites people and their devils come out to rape. Only education will not do exactly we need stricter law enforced on the society. We need good law makers and law keepers for it.