Once again gender apartheid is being instituted in grave violations of the human rights of girls and women in Afghanistan. This time, the attacks are coming from warlords.
If you'd lost a loved one, would you want revenge? As the world edges closer to war, Rachel Shabi of the UK newspaper 'The Guardian' talks to relatives who believe retaliation is wrong.
“Wanted: Flat for three
twenty-something Palestinian women to rent; Must be in Jewish west Jerusalem and
free from religious bigots and bombers”.
That would be an honest
advertisement if Manal Diab, Sonia and Wafa Khoury wanted to be open about their
recent travails on the top floor of No. 16 Iddo the Prophet Street.
Violence against women is
one of the sharp indicators of the subordinate position of women in the society.
Violence exists in different forms, different levels from personal to physical
violence to structural violence, justified by religion, culture and laws. Most
of the steps taken from the protection of women against violence tend in
addressing the women rather than men. These steps don’t enforce laws or take
action against men.
The women issues are
political issues. The social paradigms don’t recognize this.
