The document summarizes a presentation on women's rights. It outlines several key rights that all humans should have, including freedom from discrimination, freedom to marry and own property, rights to work and education. However, it notes that abuse, violence and discrimination against women remains widespread and tolerated in many places. It provides several examples of ongoing issues in countries like DR Congo, Pakistan, Thailand, Ukraine and others. The document then discusses the history of women's rights in Afghanistan, noting improvements since the fall of the Taliban but that challenges still remain regarding issues like school dropout rates, freedom of movement, and early marriage. It concludes by outlining the UN's ongoing efforts to support women's rights and improve conditions in
A social issue is a problem that influences many citizens within a society. It is a common problem in present-day society and one that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's control. Civil war has brought a variety of social ills in Afghanistan, such as poverty, interethnic strife, inequality of women, and widespread thievery, kidnapping, and banditry. Blood feuds handed down through generations are legendary, and revenge is regarded as a necessary redress of wrongs. The civil war has strengthened these tendencies.
The girls have not vanished overnight. Decades of sex determination tests and female foeticide that has acquired genocide proportions are finally catching up with states in India.
This is only the tip of the demographic and social problems confronting India in the coming years. Skewed sex ratios have moved beyond the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. With news of increasing number of female foetuses being aborted from Orissa to Bangalore there is ample evidence to suggest that the next census will reveal a further fall in child sex ratios throughout the country.
The decline in child sex ratio in India is evident by comparing the census figures. In 1991, the figure was 947 girls to 1000 boys. Ten years later it had fallen to 927 girls for 1000 boys.
Since 1991, 80% of districts in India have recorded a declining sex ratio with the state of Punjab being the worst.
States like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana have recorded a more than 50 point decline in the child sex ratio in this period.
Despite these horrific numbers, foetal sex determination and sex selective abortion by unethical medical professionals has today grown into a Rs. 1,000 crore industry (US$ 244 million). Social discrimination against women, already entrenched in Indian society, has been spurred on by technological developments that today allow mobile sex selection clinics to drive into almost any village or neighbourhood unchecked.
The PCPNDT Act 1994 (Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act) was modified in 2003 to target the medical profession - the ‘supply side’ of the practice of sex selection. However non implementation of the Act has been the biggest failing of the campaign against sex selection
According to the latest data available till May 2006, as many as 22 out of 35 states in India had not reported a single case of violation of the act since it came into force. Delhi reported the largest number of violations – 76 out of which 69 were cases of non registration of birth! Punjab had 67 cases and Gujarat 57 cases.
But the battle rages on.
Women's empowerment has become a significant topic of discussion in development and economics. It can also point to approaches regarding other trivialized genders in a particular political or social context. Women's economic empowerment refers to the ability for women to enjoy their rights to control and benefit from resources, assets, income and their own time, as well as the ability to manage risk and improve their economic status and well being. While often interchangeably used, the more comprehensive concept of gender empowerment refers to people of any gender, stressing the distinction between biological sex and gender as a role. It thereby also refers to other marginalized genders in a particular political or social context.
A social issue is a problem that influences many citizens within a society. It is a common problem in present-day society and one that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's control. Civil war has brought a variety of social ills in Afghanistan, such as poverty, interethnic strife, inequality of women, and widespread thievery, kidnapping, and banditry. Blood feuds handed down through generations are legendary, and revenge is regarded as a necessary redress of wrongs. The civil war has strengthened these tendencies.
The girls have not vanished overnight. Decades of sex determination tests and female foeticide that has acquired genocide proportions are finally catching up with states in India.
This is only the tip of the demographic and social problems confronting India in the coming years. Skewed sex ratios have moved beyond the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. With news of increasing number of female foetuses being aborted from Orissa to Bangalore there is ample evidence to suggest that the next census will reveal a further fall in child sex ratios throughout the country.
The decline in child sex ratio in India is evident by comparing the census figures. In 1991, the figure was 947 girls to 1000 boys. Ten years later it had fallen to 927 girls for 1000 boys.
Since 1991, 80% of districts in India have recorded a declining sex ratio with the state of Punjab being the worst.
States like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana have recorded a more than 50 point decline in the child sex ratio in this period.
Despite these horrific numbers, foetal sex determination and sex selective abortion by unethical medical professionals has today grown into a Rs. 1,000 crore industry (US$ 244 million). Social discrimination against women, already entrenched in Indian society, has been spurred on by technological developments that today allow mobile sex selection clinics to drive into almost any village or neighbourhood unchecked.
The PCPNDT Act 1994 (Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act) was modified in 2003 to target the medical profession - the ‘supply side’ of the practice of sex selection. However non implementation of the Act has been the biggest failing of the campaign against sex selection
According to the latest data available till May 2006, as many as 22 out of 35 states in India had not reported a single case of violation of the act since it came into force. Delhi reported the largest number of violations – 76 out of which 69 were cases of non registration of birth! Punjab had 67 cases and Gujarat 57 cases.
But the battle rages on.
Women's empowerment has become a significant topic of discussion in development and economics. It can also point to approaches regarding other trivialized genders in a particular political or social context. Women's economic empowerment refers to the ability for women to enjoy their rights to control and benefit from resources, assets, income and their own time, as well as the ability to manage risk and improve their economic status and well being. While often interchangeably used, the more comprehensive concept of gender empowerment refers to people of any gender, stressing the distinction between biological sex and gender as a role. It thereby also refers to other marginalized genders in a particular political or social context.
The phenomenon of female culture in closed communitiessandhya mannala
Journey of a women from ancient times to modern times. Gender socialization is the process by which individuals are taught how to socially behave in accordance with their assigned gender.
A RETROSPECTION ON HOW GENDER DISCRIMINATION EXISTED IN INDIA CULMINATED IN ...Jaseel CM
A RETROSPECTION ON HOW GENDER DISCRIMINATION EXISTED IN INDIA CULMINATED IN THE FORBIDDANCE OF THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION OF FEMALE SECT., AIMS AND OBJECTIVES, WHAT IS GENDER DISCRIMINATION,POSITION OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT PERIOD,VEDIC PERIOD,MAURYAN PERIOD,MUGHAL PERIOD,MUSLIM PERIOD,MEDIAVAL PERIOD, BUDDHIST PERIOD,MODERN PERIOD, MODERN PERIOD
1. A Presentation on Women Rights
By
Meera Chavda
Roll – 33
Sy. ITM
C. P. Patel Commerce College
2.
3. Freedom of Speech Freedom from Fear
Freedom to Vote Freedom from Torture
Freedom of Choice
Freedom from enslavement
Freedom of Religion
4.
5. - All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights
- Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry
and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
- Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of
work and to protection against unemployment.
- Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
- Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an
existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free; at least in the
elementary and fundamental stages Elementary education shall be compulsory.
Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher
education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
- Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its
benefits.
6. - Abuse violence and discrimination
against women are widely tolerated and
systematic.
- The issues with women’s rights are
still being ignored and remain as a
‘social epidemic’.
- Many governments turn a blind eye
towards the increasing problems with
the discrimination and violence against
women
- Abused victims of rape, unfair
treatments in the workplace,
domestic violence etc., have got
no one to turn to
7. - Women are attacked in areas of armed conflict e.g.
DR Congo and Rwanda. Many are infected with
HIV/AIDS as a result
- In Pakistan, men are beating women at alarming
rates – yet government officials refuse to interfere
and punish batterers
- In Thailand, Burma and Nigeria, women are
constantly being sold and trafficked into
prostitution where governments are not doing
enough to protect the rights of women
- In Ukraine and Mexico, women are often denied
employment simply because they are women
- In the US, students attack girls who are
homosexuals, bisexuals or transgender
-In Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and Saudi
Arabia, women are rendered as being unequal
in front of the law.
- Women are not allowed to study at
universities and can be arrested for not wearing
the correct clothing in countries such as Iran.
8. Before During After
*Women carried out *Taliban took over in the *Taliban was overthrown in
businesses transactions 1990’s 2001
* Education for women and *Restricted and violated *Over one million girls are
their right to vote was women’s right on education, attending school
introduced to the constitution work and freedom of
in 1964 movement *Access to health care
services
*Strict dress code
*Job positions held by
women: *Imposed harsh penalties on *Afghan government and
- 70% teachers women for breaking such NGO has set up programs to
- 50% civil servants rules. E.g.: public lashings improve women’s status
- 40% doctors and public participations.
*Restricted access to health
care services
9. *Girls’ drop-out rates of school is still high
*Little or no progress at school
*Increase of female teachers is essential, as families would not let
daughters to attend school with male teachers
*Freedom of movement is still a restriction
*Exchange of young women to repay debts still continues
*Early marriage – 57% married before age of 16.
*Widespread intimidation and general security threatens women’s
right to vote freely
10. - The UN and its organizations, a main one being Women Watch, has
taken a special long term interest in Afghanistan to improve human
rights and bring peace to the country.
- Its concern increased during 1996 when the Taliban took control of Kabul
- Since then, the UN has established a Human Rights Commission in Afghanistan which has created a
committee to eliminate discrimination of woman and treat them as equals to men as well as establishing
principles in the country reflecting the universal human rights.
- It has been part of the adoption of resolution 1325, made by the Security Council, on women, peace and
security on 31st October 2000.
- It has also focused on the issues of education, media and culture; health; human rights and the
Constitution; and refugees and internally displaced women.
11. - They were also urged to recognize the role that women
should have in the future Government of Afghanistan as
well as in the preparing the Loya Jirga (grand assembly).
- The women arranged to have schools reopened for
all children on 21 March 2002 and have resumed
the positions of their old jobs
The current priorities of the UN system
include:
- to stabilize the country and assist in the
creation of a transitional government;
- to create conditions that allow for the
delivery of humanitarian assistance;
- to develop a plan for the reconstruction and
recovery of the country;
- to support the return of refugees and
internally displaced persons.