A Tribute to Those Who Know a World Without Male Supremacy and Any Form of Oppression is Necessary
“Born of a Woman,” Consolidated
“Women’s Herstory Month,” Mumia Abu-Jamal (from http://PrisonRadio.org )
“In the US, a woman is raped every 6 minutes; a woman is battered every 15 seconds. In North Africa, 6,000 women are genitally mutilated each day. This year, more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery in China. 200 women in Bangladesh will be horribly disfigured when their spurned husbands or suitors burn them with acid. More than 7,000 women in India will be murdered by their families and in-laws in disputes over dowries. Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination which denies women equal rights with men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women’s bodies for individual gratification or political ends. Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women. (Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill Treatment of Women, Amnesty International, 2001)
Violence against women feeds off discrimination and serves to reinforce it. When women are abused in custody, when they are raped by armed forces as ‘spoils of war’, or when they are terrorized by violence in the home, unequal power relations between men and women are both manifested and enforced.
Violence against women is compounded by discrimination on the grounds of race, ethnicity, sexual identity, social status, class, and age. Such multiple forms of discrimination further restrict women’s choices, increase their vulnerability to violence and make it even harder for women to obtain justice.”
http://www.amnestyusa.org/Stop_Violence_Against_Women_SVAW/Violence_Against_Women
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