[hr-education] Re: Women's human rights - violence against women

Dear colleagues, 

This is a very important subject. Our girls should be educated early
enough on certain inhuman practices carried out in our society on our
girls and women. The girls and women of Africa and the world at large
should be education to advocate for the stop of an inhuman practice of the
Female Genetal Multilation. It destroys women's health and some even die
in the practice. The most important tool for advocacy is education.

Let us join hands and stamp out human rights abuses and violence aginst
women in the world.

Elizabeth Vukeh Tamajong 
National Centre for Educational Research 
B.P 1466, Yaounde. 
Cameroon 



On Monday, 18 September 2006, Prabhat Dixit wrote: 

Dear Faridul, 

It is a fantastic idea. As an advocate of girls education and being from
your neighboring country Nepal I can only rejoice what you have initiated.
Our problem is that the mullahs, we have our own mullahs, have distorted
our religion. Being dominated and harassed by Muslim clergies, feudals of
religions and self imposed gurus of Islam these mullahs are distorting the
main message of any religion that is equality before god!! That is exactly
what the priests do in Nepal too. If you look at Hindu religion, each god
has a friend as a goddess and better half. None of our epics portrays the
wife of a god or Rama or Krishna or any other god has inferior or less
powerful. On the contrary, our goddess are more powerful. We worship them
each day. Take any one, she is a partner at equal footing with the
opposite sex. The religion does not discriminate but the priests'
interpretations and the traditions and cultures they (the priests) define
does. That is what I call distortion of religion by feudal lords to
safeguard their interests and domination. If they can dominate half the
population, then it is very easy for them to dominate others!! See the
philosophy!!!

And the only way to change is to highlight the achievement of girls and
women and also to expose the hypocrisy of mullah. Until and unless you
expose these bad elements in the society called mullahs, priests or so
called fathers, our target won't be achieved. And the first step towards
this fight is the education. Education helps us to realize and come out of
the darkness that engulfing us.

Thanks a lot. 

Prabhat 
Kathmandu 

Prabhat Dixit 
Research Director 
College of Development Studies 
Kathmandu, Nepal 



On 12 September 2006, Faridul Alam wrote: 

Dear Colleagues, 

I am a human rights activist and educator from Chittagong, Bangladesh. I
am working for a human rights organization called Promoting Human Rights
and Education in Bangladesh (PHREB). We are going to organize an event
called Honoring Future Nation Builders on 19 September in Chittagong. The
event will honor 670 young girls who have gained highest grade point in
the secondary examination from Chittagong education board. We are going to
celebrate their achievements.

They have achieved this result overcoming a lot of problems -- violence
against young women is pervasive in the region. I would like to ask for
most innovative actions for the day. Please let me know how effectively we
can make women rights a fact for a society where women are not even
considered as human being.

Thanks in advance for your input. 

-- 
Faridul Alam 
Executive Director, PHREB 
Bangladesh 




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