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Read this story in the METRO on the way to work yesterday and it infruriated me - yet another tale of the prevalent misogyny that exists in our world. Particularly in fanatical religions.
Iraqi Father Proud He Killed His Daughter - Because it was an 'Honor' Killing
He actually call this an Honor killing? Like there is anything the least bit honorable about murdering another human being to make yourself "feel" better?
The horrible thing about this is that it is not an isolated case. Just two years ago, a cab driver told me a tale about how women from his hometown in Jordan, would be tested for virginity on their wedding night. If they were found not to be a virgin, no blood on the sheets, the husband had the right to kill the woman with a sword and burn her. When I asked about what if a man wasn't a virgin, he said that wasn't an issue, people more or less expected it.
His story as incredible and disgusting as it sounds is backed by this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24581707/
National Geographic Article about Hundreds and Thousands of Women Killed Each Year for Families Honor
Here's more links about crimes against women:
Human's Rights Watch - Violence and Discrimination Against Women
Gendercide
Nearly 600 Women Killed in Pakistan For Honor
What is Honor?
Saudi Woman Killed By Father for Chatting on Facebook
Codifying Honor in Female Sexuality, Honor Killings in Palestine
Honor Killings in Israel
Women's Rights Web Site
Men and Women - the unequal equation
From the above link:
" Men and women: the unequal equation
Throughout the world women and men lead their lives in vastly differing circumstances. No country on earth can boast total gender equality.
Most of the world’s 1.2 billion poor are women.
Women perform more than half of all working hours worldwide.
However, only 30 % of their work is paid, as compared with 75 % in the case of men.
Women earn considerably less than men and there are fewer of them in senior positions.
Women, especially young women, are more often unemployed than men and remain so for longer periods.
One third of all women find themselves juggling the twin tasks of supporting and bringing up their children alone, without the benefit of a second family income.
There is a higher illiteracy rate among women.
There are still fewer girls than boys attending school.
Some industrialised countries now have more women than men in higher education. For instance, female students accounted for 50.4 % of all new enrolments in Germany in 2002. By contrast, only 22 % of tertiary students in Tanzania are women.
African women produce around 80 % of the staple foods and over 30 % of cash crops.
Nevertheless, their access to land is impeded and they are disadvantaged under inheritance laws.
Only 26 nations have so far not signed the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Women are distinctly underrepresented in governments, political parties and at the United Nations.
During the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 some 500,000 women were raped.
80 % of all war refugees are women and children.
In some African countries more than half of all girls are subjected to the cruel ritual of female genital mutilation (FGM).
About half of all women who are killed worldwide die at the hands of their partner.
Up to a quarter of all women across the globe become victims of sexual violence during their lives.
Gender: a universal issue
In the 1970s it was observed that while development aid often improved the quality of life enjoyed by the male population in developing countries, it frequently did so at the expense of women. This triggered the formation of a great number of women-in-development initiatives, which set out to eliminate discrimination against women.
However, experience gained in development cooperation over recent decades has revealed that activities aimed solely at the advancement of women are on their own insufficient to obliterate inequality and underdevelopment. Since the World Conference on Women held in Nairobi in 1985, the relationship between women and men – which in its worst manifestation is one of suppression – has become an established theme in development cooperation. The needs, rights and duties of men and women are highly interdependent. This is why both sexes must be brought on board in order to overcome gender-specific discrimination, achieve equal opportunities and harness development potentials. "
Iraqi Father Proud He Killed His Daughter - Because it was an 'Honor' Killing
He actually call this an Honor killing? Like there is anything the least bit honorable about murdering another human being to make yourself "feel" better?
The horrible thing about this is that it is not an isolated case. Just two years ago, a cab driver told me a tale about how women from his hometown in Jordan, would be tested for virginity on their wedding night. If they were found not to be a virgin, no blood on the sheets, the husband had the right to kill the woman with a sword and burn her. When I asked about what if a man wasn't a virgin, he said that wasn't an issue, people more or less expected it.
His story as incredible and disgusting as it sounds is backed by this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24581707/
National Geographic Article about Hundreds and Thousands of Women Killed Each Year for Families Honor
Here's more links about crimes against women:
Human's Rights Watch - Violence and Discrimination Against Women
Gendercide
Nearly 600 Women Killed in Pakistan For Honor
What is Honor?
Saudi Woman Killed By Father for Chatting on Facebook
Codifying Honor in Female Sexuality, Honor Killings in Palestine
Honor Killings in Israel
Women's Rights Web Site
Men and Women - the unequal equation
From the above link:
" Men and women: the unequal equation
Throughout the world women and men lead their lives in vastly differing circumstances. No country on earth can boast total gender equality.
Most of the world’s 1.2 billion poor are women.
Women perform more than half of all working hours worldwide.
However, only 30 % of their work is paid, as compared with 75 % in the case of men.
Women earn considerably less than men and there are fewer of them in senior positions.
Women, especially young women, are more often unemployed than men and remain so for longer periods.
One third of all women find themselves juggling the twin tasks of supporting and bringing up their children alone, without the benefit of a second family income.
There is a higher illiteracy rate among women.
There are still fewer girls than boys attending school.
Some industrialised countries now have more women than men in higher education. For instance, female students accounted for 50.4 % of all new enrolments in Germany in 2002. By contrast, only 22 % of tertiary students in Tanzania are women.
African women produce around 80 % of the staple foods and over 30 % of cash crops.
Nevertheless, their access to land is impeded and they are disadvantaged under inheritance laws.
Only 26 nations have so far not signed the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Women are distinctly underrepresented in governments, political parties and at the United Nations.
During the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 some 500,000 women were raped.
80 % of all war refugees are women and children.
In some African countries more than half of all girls are subjected to the cruel ritual of female genital mutilation (FGM).
About half of all women who are killed worldwide die at the hands of their partner.
Up to a quarter of all women across the globe become victims of sexual violence during their lives.
Gender: a universal issue
In the 1970s it was observed that while development aid often improved the quality of life enjoyed by the male population in developing countries, it frequently did so at the expense of women. This triggered the formation of a great number of women-in-development initiatives, which set out to eliminate discrimination against women.
However, experience gained in development cooperation over recent decades has revealed that activities aimed solely at the advancement of women are on their own insufficient to obliterate inequality and underdevelopment. Since the World Conference on Women held in Nairobi in 1985, the relationship between women and men – which in its worst manifestation is one of suppression – has become an established theme in development cooperation. The needs, rights and duties of men and women are highly interdependent. This is why both sexes must be brought on board in order to overcome gender-specific discrimination, achieve equal opportunities and harness development potentials. "
