:::Stop the violence against women:::
Women in Focus!
Dear sisters this is for us!
“The best judge of
whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If
it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to
move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then
they're going to fall behind.”
Barack Obama, 2008
Women are mothers of the nation. They help make creation complete by bringing forth life. Women complete men in every aspect of life. Women have a different way of thinking which in effect brings equilibrium to our understanding of what life itself is and how things function.
Men find it difficult to understand
women. Some claim we are a mystery. Some lack understanding of the being that
we are. Sigmund Freud the famous psychoanalyst found it very difficult to comprehend
what a woman wants and as a result the being:
“WOMAN”
"The great question
that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer,
despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a
woman want?'"
Sigmund Freud
I have no answers either. But for
sure I know what we do not want….Violence
Violence is not our motto.
Let’s look around the world today, thousands
of women are being mishandled and violated. The woman’s fragile nature makes
her an easy victim to different act of abuses in the world today and after a
long series of “But WHY?” the answer we get is:
It is a Man’s world!
I have thousand examples for you,
but just to name a few, let’s start with India.
Hundreds of women are being violated
upon daily. One third of women in India between 15 to 49, are experiencing
domestic violence daily and 25 percent are being abused on the streets in broad
daylight. Many live in fear and some in shame because the wound they nurse is
not just on their flesh but also the soul. Sexual and physical abuses are the order
of the day today in India. No one, to run to. It’s a man's world, a system that
promotes male chauvinism. A woman is good enough for sex and home keeping. So whatever
the abuses are, you bury your head in the comfort of your arm, choked in your
own pain, soaked in your tears and drowned in your sorrow. You weep, clean your
eyes and go on!
To my beloved South Africa…”Mzansi”…
We have a different picture. A deep hatred for women under the pretext of the term
called “Corrective Rape”. Women are being gang- raped, stab to death and abandoned
without the courtesy of covering the naked abused bodies; Abused by men who
think in doing so they can help change their sexual orientation. And just that
you should know, South Africa was among the first five countries that legalized
same sex marriage. You are wondering what the institution for civil rights is
doing right? That one na story for another day.
To my Fatherland Nigeria; I don
start again right? Don’t worry I won’t talk much.
Now we are talking about violence inflicted
by women upon their fellow women. Female genital mutilation…Yeah… That’s right
you got me right.
Nigeria still practices this act.
Somalia is not left out either.
Child bride …Every year about 14 million of
young girls, I will say children are being given out to men for marriage. Some
are lucky to be the second wife others ran out of luck and became the fifth. 50
percent are left with obstetric fistula (a medical condition in which a canal
develops between the rectum and vagina). Oh not forgetting the fact that it was
just Chibok GIRLS that were abducted and not boys, Before nkoh!!! While on That
…Please bring back our Girls Oh….Deris God OH!
Cameroon…Cameroon. You are not left
out either….yes oh. In short watch the film and tell me what you think. An “Avant
gout”… Go and get your copy and promote our film industry, while you are at it ….Learn
a thing or two. Tradition and custom of
our people do not only belittle the woman, some violate our rights.
I guess I have ranted enough right
ok, let’s get started.
With the aim of creating awareness
and sensitizing the society on issues concerning violence around the world against
women in this modern era of ours, the students of the International School of Business
(HFU-Business-Scholl) in Schwenningen Germany organized an “Orange day”, a day
dedicated to fight against violence in all form towards women around the world.
With the help of films and presentations, a platform was created, whereby
students and also the general public participated, with the aim of bringing
about the aspect of Change.
Change in the way women are being portrayed, Change
in the way women are being treated. Change in our perception of the girl child.
Change from our belief of the notion of a “Man’s world” to that of “Our world”.
That change we badly need can only come from us. And hey Cameroon was represented, by our very
own Ashu Yvonne, yeah you are right, the only black lady in the pics you see.
Bravo to you and your comrades for the initiative and a job well done.
It takes you to make a difference, don’t wait
for a hero that may never come. Be the change you badly want!
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A very nice write up. True, much sensitization has to take place as concerns violence on a broader scale; i.e. violence on children, women and lastly (but not the least) men. Determining the prevalence of domestic violence against men is difficult since male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for diverse social reasons. Some studies have shown that an estimated 40% of men in intimate relationships suffer from domestic violence. You failed to highlight this point in your write up. Please check out the below painting(unfortunately I can't upload it)
ReplyDeleteKalighat painting, "Woman Striking Man With Broom," Calcutta, India, 1875
The world today may be “man’s world”, but that of tomorrow belongs to women. If you look around the most educated and influential personalities in the world today you will increasingly find women (Dr. Angela Merkel, Mrs. Christine Lagarde, Mrs Beyoncé Knowles, and Mrs. Oprah Whinfrey). So women are getting better informed and it is high time women stand in for other women and seize the reins of command. If things are to change considering the violence towards women, then you better start making the world a “woman’s world”. Be courageous and bold for as Shakespear says, “things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear”.
Not forgetting Forced genital mutilation (Forced circumcision · Involuntary castration) in males as part of most cultural an religious practices, which is unfortunately considered in the so called " men's world " as normal.
ReplyDeleteGreat write up! This should be our world not mens world!! Men stand up for the rights of women and even thoug we wonder if they know what they want, we hav e be told they know exactly what they don't want. Let's swallow our pride and start up with:
ReplyDeleteSaying no to forced marriages and child bride
Speak out against cultures that do FGM
Speak out against rape
Speak out against child prostitution and stop going to Thailand to exploit the young unprotected little girls
Be examples and Treat our women with pride
Men do not mistake a womans loving and tolerance for weakness. Beware women are stronger just that twe can't understand them.