Treatment of women monitored world wide.Under the Clinton administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton executive - persons who administer the law , U.S. embassies around the world are keeping closer watch on the treatment of women, and they're finding widespread abuses. The State Department's 1993 human rights report for the first time included crimes against women as human rights violations. The decision to focus separately on women in each country was reportedly part of the high priority the administration puts on the role of women in society. The report concluded that "All too often, women and girls find that their access to education, employment, health care, and even food is limited because of their gender. The report found that "women throughout the world were subjected to onerous on·er·ous adj. 1. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome. See Synonyms at burdensome. 2. Law Entailing obligations that exceed advantages. and discriminatory restriction of such fundamental freedoms as voting, marriage, travel, testifying in court, inheriting and owning property and obtaining custody of children." Specific abuses by countries were discussed: * "That female life is not valued. as much as male life is apparent in countries such as China where it is reported that more female fetuses than male are aborted a·bort v. a·bort·ed, a·bort·ing, a·borts v.intr. 1. To give birth prematurely or before term; miscarry. 2. To cease growth before full development or maturation. 3. ." * In Sudan, circumcision circumcision (sûr'kəmsĭzh`ən), operation to remove the foreskin covering the glans of the penis. It dates back to prehistoric times and was widespread throughout the Middle East as a religious rite before it was introduced among the of girls is illegal, but there are reports that over 90 percent of northern Sudanese women and girls have been mutilated mu·ti·late tr.v. mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates 1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple. 2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. by the process, which can lead to "severe urinary problems, infections and death." * In India, the killing of a new bride by a groom's family due to the dowry dowry (dou`rē), the property that a woman brings to her husband at the time of the marriage. The dowry apparently originated in the giving of a marriage gift by the family of the bridegroom to the bride and the bestowal of money upon the bride by is rarely successfully, prosecuted. * Marital rape is not recognized as a crime in many countries, and women beaten in their homes have no legal protection. * Women and girls on several continents are sold into prostitution. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion