Wednesday, 13 October 2010
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NEWNATIONS BULLETIN 13 OCTOBER 2010
"ENSLAVEMENT OF WOMEN"
For our regular readers, preoccupied by matters more usually offered on our pages, like the state of play in such as Iraq or Afghanistan, we suspend the familiar geopolitical drama, to ask them briefly to view with us the varying degrees of evil displayed mostly by men against women and female children.
As to the significance of the problem, Kristof/Wudunn (“Half the Sky”) claim that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years - because they were girls - than men killed in all the battles of the 20th century.
In September 2007 newnations published, “When Anger is Appropriate” the story of Human Trafficking in Europe, contributed by Peter Crisell. The same author expands on that work this month with “The Enslavement of Women.” This essay spotlights the several ways in which many women in our time are enslaved, and points out just how far the world is from being civilised, not only in third-world conditions, but also in one form or another in most nations on earth.
There is little room for complacency, but we return to a theme that keeps recurring. It is that a collection of 192 current UN members are unlikely to ever get on top of this problem with 192 governments a) recognising; b) interpreting; c) acting on the issues each in their own way, which in many instances simply means no action at all.
It is apparent that the term “the civilised world” refers only to a small minority of these nation states that can truthfully claim to have entirely eradicated these horrors.
They are rare indeed!
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