Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Women- all around the world


The french television channel, tv5 , presents a very interesting program called 'envoye special' ( a special envoy).
On Tuesday eve, they screened a documentary short film , made in Afghanistan, describing the life of women in this tortured , ripped land.
The brave reporter, I don't recall his exact name, but I think it was Jules Giliers, participated in a Taliban meeting with educational representatives from Kandahar ,trying to perform a tolerant appearance.
But the facts are quite different.


Many representatives of the local authorities as well as people from the street , said that women's place is at home. Women are not allowed to go to school- and when they go, they literally risk their lives.
Schools for women are situated in clandestine places, in dark alleys, and are relocated from time to time in order to avoid an exposure by Taliban- which means death sentence.
The film shows a building, destroyed and burned by Taliban, as a result of disobeying the draconian rules.
The most difficult scene in this film, was the one of a 17 years old girl, burned by her father and her husband. The young girl, wrapped with bandages from head to legs, is encouraged by the local women's rights lady activist, telling her:" luckily, you can still talk.".
Women's oppression all around the world is ignored . It relates to murder of women in order to defend the 'family's honor' which happens as well within Arab-Israeli families. Abuse and even murder of women occurs whithin Jewish families and it happens everywhere- even in Sweden as described by Stieg Larsson in his book 'the girl with the dragon tatoo' . Estee Segal wrote about it in the Hebrew website 'notes'.
Movements for human right tend frequently to ignore women's rights. There's no way the western world could defend women – neither in fanatical regimes nor in the modern world.
The American author of a Afghan origin, Khaled Hosseini, whose book's cover appears above, describes in a very vivid way, the phenomena of living under a caotic and cruel control, especially for women.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My Dearest Aunt, Sister, Woman.
Let me have the honor of being first to respond to your blog with sincerity-Thank you, for shinning a light in such a dark place - a dark place void of humanity - but as you said so eloquently, there are still regions of this planet where a woman's life is less valued than a dog's - and yes, all in the name of male pride and religion. The fact that even in the "enlightened" western world governments (comprised mostly of men) have control over woman's right's to choose abortion or take birth control pills - only goes to show we have a long way to go...Please keep the conversation alive, in the presence of light darkness can not exist.
Love, M. Moore

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