Amnesty International shares a concern on the eve of International Women’s Day
We are today in a more civilized world, where the rights of women are recognized and respected. Women’s liberation struggles date back to centuries to fight for equality, freedom from the drudges of house cores, social respect and recognition of their intricate issues. The International Women’s Day is celebrated all over the world with more and more awareness created among the people of all countries. But the question – whether the female children of today, irrespective of territorial limitations, enjoy the social freedom and equality with their counterparts, remains unanswered. Amnesty International, Group 82, shares its concern with regard to this with the so called modern community.
Consider the plight of school going children hailing from the feminine gender – are they free to mingle with other students, especially Boys, of the school and spend the day learning, playing, chatting, and rejoicing which they earnestly deserve? An honest answer for this mind-boggling question is an emphatic “No”. Because schools are the miniatures of our society, where violence – sexual, physical and psychological – are rampant. More so in the so called sophisticated societies of the Western world, where people adopt more automated life-styles, borne out of the scientific inventions and technological excellence.
In the under developed countries, the situation is still worse. Poverty and illiteracy are the backbones in these countries, to invite diseases because of unhygienic conditions prevailing in the whole community including schools. Girl students are denied education to take care of the other children at home; sexual harassments threaten them everywhere, whether they are at home or at schools. While it is bragged that education is human right, it is denied to these poor kids for no fault of theirs.
The violence in such communities first target female children, to molest them mercilessly and the result is sexual diseases like HIV, unwanted pregnancies and mental depression. Ethnic discriminations create violence in large scales, where people take refuge in camps and here also the female members of the society, particularly kids and teenagers, face untold miseries in the hands of males for all sorts of abuses.
Let us wake up and do something about this on the eve of International Women’s Day 2009.
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