“We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.”
― John Pilger

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

POLL-Egypt is worst Arab state for women, Comoros best

Thomson Reuters Foundation - Tue, 12 Nov 2013


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  • Egypt worst for women's rights in poll of 22 Arab states
  • Iraq more dangerous for women than under Saddam Hussein
  • Small steps in Saudi Arabia but women still second class
  • Syria's war and discriminatory laws curtail women's rights
  • Comoros first for giving women political and economic rights
LONDON, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday.
Discriminatory laws and a spike in trafficking also contributed to Egypt’s place at the bottom of a ranking of 22 Arab states, the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey found.
Despite hopes that women would be one of the prime beneficiaries of the Arab Spring, they have instead been some of the biggest losers, as the revolts have brought conflict, instability, displacement and a rise in Islamist groups in many parts of the region, experts said.


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