VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Violence against Women An Assignment Submitted by Name of Student Name of Establishment Class XXXX, Section XXXX, Fall 2012

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It stands to reason that in our modern and mobile world all humans have rights for freedom to express their thoughts, ideas, success in career development and act according to moral laws irrespective of their skin color, religious beliefs and nationality. However, in some Muslim countries modern men still regard women to be solely symbols of maternity, cooking and household maintenance. Therefore, female discrimination rages in the labour market today in some developing countries. Besides, oriental male breadwinners get used to regarding their wives to be obedient, dutiful, docile and want to leave such laws unbroken. Consequently, any disobedience or insubordination can be strictly punished. Nowadays, thousand cases of domestic violence against women are reported daily. Now let us have a closer look at cases of violence against women and realize why they still happen in our free democratic society. In fact, according to Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women violence is considered to be any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life (United Nations, 1993, p. 2). Actually, women are generally subjected to violence as husbands beat their wives-victims in order to demonstrate their strength prevalence over them and to coerce females to act and behave as they wish. Stab wounds, rapes, violations, manhandling, woman abuse are regarded to be the most widespread ways of home violence against females. It should be taken into consideration that numerous leading psychologists claim that woman abuse and breadwinners aggressive behaviour models are the negative consequences of males fostering and upbringing. Scientists state that in their childhood and adolescence male kids observe the aggressive relation patterns between their parents when an alcohol abused father could violently treat their spouse. Therefore, being grown-ups guys usually follow the above-mentioned behaviour pattern and consider it to

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be an example for imitation. It should be emphasized that an awful and even outrageous instance of woman abuse and home violence is the case with 19-year old Afghanistan woman Aisha who was atrociously disfigured by having cut off her ears and nose for an attempt to take wing form her cruel and brutal Muslim husband. Due to religious diversity and cross-cultural misunderstandings innocent females have to experience manhandling. Therefore, personal insults and stab wounds can be deeply appreciated in some religions while are unacceptable in the democratic and free USA. In fact, according to Muslim laws a husband has a right to kill his spouse if she is suspected of adultery and a severe punishment is also welcome if a female spouse fails to obey her breadwinner. Violence against women can take place in cross-cultural relations when a male considers violation or woman abuse to be an integral part of spouse relationships and a husband supposes that all other men also treat their wives in the same way. Allegedly, the main problem is that nobody takes the issue of home violence against girls seriously. Thus, in her outstanding and gripping work Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues Catharine MacKinnon questions why the torture of women by men is not seen as torture (MacKinnon, 2006, p. 21); why violence against women within the borders of a state is not seen as a human rights violation; why the mass rape of Bosnian and Croatian women by Serbs is not seen as an act of genocide against those ethnic groups as such; why, women not being considered a people, there is as yet no international law against destroying the group women as such (MacKinnon, 2006, p. 230); why the terror imposed by the violence of male dominance is not seen as the sort of terrorism against which a government might see fit to wage war; why atrocities against women do not count as war crimes unless a war among men is going on at the same time (MacKinnon, 2006, p. 261). So, the mass acts of violence against women happen due to the absence of females will and proper laws to stop it. It should be highlighted that a feminist movement have tried to eliminate woman discrimination and establish emancipation from males

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unjust violent treatment for several decades. In the stated below chart one can observe the violence rates that women experience annually, % of administrative / management positions that girls take in different countries and % of females who are engaged in parliament or congress worldwide (Appendix).

Consequently, according to the chart and the collected data the highest rates of woman abuse are fixed in the countries of Western Europe 68 % and Australia 35 % whereas the lowest is in Asia where only 16 % of women experience domestic violence annually. However, it should be taken into consideration that there is no data concerning the cases of domestic violence in the countries of Eastern Europe. Moreover, as it turns out numerous Asian countries lack domestic violence or marital rape laws that will protect females from males abuses. The highest rates of women who take leading positions in business and parliament are fixed in the countries of Australia, Northern America and Eastern Europe and the lowest ones - in Western Europe. No data is found concerning management positions that girls occupy in Asia and Africa. All things considered, human right laws fail to protect womens dignity and should be amended. Females should not allow their breadwinners to insult or rape them at any rate.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN References Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. (1993). UN General Assembly.

MacKinnon, C.A. (2006). Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues. Harvard University Press, 21-261. Statistical indicators of womens status worldwide. (2003). Appendix. .