Treatment of women
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[edit] The treatment of women
- The treatment of women continues to be a scandal in many parts of the world. Of the 1.3 billion in deep poverty, 70% are women. They work longer hours for less reward and all too often bear the greater financial burden to raise their families.
- Countries where female infanticide is widely practised, such as China and India, will trigger a growing smuggling of women (Human trafficking) and girls for the sex trade (Prostitution) and for forced marriages.
[edit] Egypt
- In Egypt kidnapping and forced religious conversion of Christian women to Islam and forced marriages remain a contentious issue, according the U.S. State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report.
[edit] Sudan
- Our hearts and prayers go out to the women of Sudan! They need our urgent and ongoing prayers as they are the ones experiencing the harsh reality of Islam. Their fate is still grim and they may not even see a small light burning at the end of their tunnel!
- “For the most part, Sudanese women remain confined to the private sphere where they are responsible for domestic chores, which is traditionally unpaid work. In Sudanese society, a woman’s primary traditional social role is marriage and bearing children. Having many children is a wife’s principal function and her
ability to do so is often the only measure of her worth. Because of this, Sudanese fertility rates are amongst the highest in the world, as are maternal death rates during childbirth, where 590 women die for every 100,000 live births. This emphasis on traditional roles also contributes to high primary school drop-out rates leading to rampant illiteracy among the female population.”
[edit] Dafur
- “In addition the socially excluding laws and rigid cultural practices as well as the conflict in Darfur, have had a particularly negative effect on women. Rape has been used as a tool of war to terrorize the population and manipulate the local gene pool. The actual number of rapes is difficult to discern because many victims do not report it due to fear of further traumatization and even criminalization. In several cases, women were abducted by rapists for several days and kept as sex slaves. Some rape survivors suffered serious physical injuries, including broken bones or burns. After rape, it’s not uncommon for women to be deserted by their families because they are “disgraced”. Many women also believe they cannot marry because they are “damaged”.
