Women Face Bias Worldwide, UN Report Says

by Jarrett Martineau | April 4, 2008 at 10:53 pm | 541 views | 1 comment

Women's struggle for gender equality and justice continues on a global scale. Today's UN report shockingly indicates that the disparity between women and men's rights is all too common and prevalent.

In 2008, it is said to acknowledge that women still have to face discrimination "in almost every country in the world", and continue to be subjected to disproportionately high levels of oppressive poverty and sexual abuse.

Let us hope that this century brings the world's population, collectively, toward a more just, balanced, and equitable co-existence.

Women are discriminated against in almost every country around the world, a UN-commissioned report says.

It says that this is despite the fact that 185 UN member states pledged to outlaw laws favouring men by 2005.

It adds that 70% of the world's poor are women and they own just 1% of the world's titled land.

The report, which was prepared for UN Human Right Commissioner Louise Arbour, says rape within marriage has still not been made a crime in 53 nations.

The report was compiled by Fareda Banda, a law professor at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

At a news conference in Geneva, Prof Banda said that other laws discriminating women included statutes on divorce, maternity benefits and pensions.

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at 03:27 on April 5th, 2008

In the political and social life of the banjar (sub village) or village, sometimes women are inferior to men. In Banjar meetings or village meetings there are no woman participants. The decisions that are made rarely take any notice of women’s interests. There is no theoretical discrimination between men and women although in practice, both men and women have their own traditional responsibilities. Women sell in the market, buy the daily need, cook, take care of the children and do the household duties. Besides working in the rice field or office, men attend to their banjar duties and participate in banjar or village activities that are more like a gathering than a duty or work.

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April 4, 2008 at 10:53 pm by Jarrett Martineau, 541 views, 1 comment