Abuse Women Face From Society
Chronic Hunger and the Status of Women in India - Horrifying to think of women and children in such conditions. Read this, and you'll think twice before complaining about lack of luxuries.
Female Genital Mutilation - These girls are just as human as your daughter, sister, niece.
Female Genital Cutting - This is horrifying, and it is much more common than we think.
Voices Rise in Egypt to Shield Girls From an Old Tradition - Tradition ends in a 13 year old girls death
Rape
Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo
War - These
women are someone's sister, mother,
daughter, aunt etc.
Female Genital Cutting - This is horrifying, and it is much more common than we think.
A Cutting Tradition - When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia, she is handed over to a small group of women who, swiftly and yet with apparent affection, cut off a small piece of her genitals.
Women in Indo-Aryan Societies -
- Child Marriage - Girls are to be married when five years old !
- Dowry - Vedas prescribe this practice.
- Bride-Burning - as if the dowry is insufficient.
- Mass Wife-Burning (Jauhar) - Often 100 women - human beings - are burnt at a time.
- Widow-Burning (Sati) - Sanctioned by the Vedas, Puranas, practiced by Krishna's wives, it still continues.
India's Neglected Widows - Please read this article. Awareness is the first step to ending this nightmare. If it were your daughter, sister or friend, you would want someone to at least care.
Abuse of Jailed Women Is a National Scandal - Even prisoners don't deserve to be abused.
Wife Abuse - High Risk Factor for Child Abuse - Please don't just turn your head, and walk away.
Protect Yourself from Rape - Rape can happen to anyone. Don't think it can't happen to you!
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