Posts Tagged ‘STAND’
It’s time these issues receive the worldwide attention and action they merit. We cannot wait until another 13-year-old girl dies because she was forced into marriage, or until a Sudanese woman is whipped for wearing jeans or a Pakistani woman is gang-raped as punishment for her brother’s alleged misdeeds (Lubna Hussein and Mukhtar Mai, respectively). We must take action now to ensure that women’s rights — which are every just as much a human rights issue as genocide and mass atrocities — are promptly addressed throughout the globe.
Tags: CARE, Carolina Chacon, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Global Issues, Half the Sky, Inc., International Violence Against Women Act, Nicholas Kristof, STAND, UNR STAND, Yemen
Posted in Opinion
Imagine if Adolf Hitler had held elections. In the midst of systematically murdering millions of Jews (as well as communists, gypsies, homosexuals and other minority groups), he ran for re-election as fuhrer. What would you expect? Free and fair elections?
Tags: Carolina Chacon, Darfur, International, international issues, STAND
Posted in Opinion
