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"In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called 'gendercide' or femicide."
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Published time: May 15, 2015 19:03 People hold a sign reading: 'For the 300,000 sterilized women, no to Keiko', referring to the sterilization of thousands of Andean women during the former Peru's president Alberto Fujimori's government, during a protest against Peru's presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori in Lima, May 20, 2011. (Reuters/Pilar Olivares) Peruvian judicial authorities have ordered the reopening and expansion of a criminal probe into the mass forced sterilization of an estimated 350,000 women and 25,000 men during the 1990s. A Peruvian public prosecutor reopened an investigation on Thursday into former President Alberto Fujimori’s possible role in the forced sterilization of thousands of Peru’s indigenous people during the ‘90s. Luis Antonio Landa Burgos, the state prosecutor leading the case, said he will extend his investigation to include new witnesses and that it must be completed within three months. Focusing mostly on indigenous and poor people in rural areas, the sterilization program was led by President Fujimori’s government, who was in power between 1990 and 2000. Fujimori himself has been serving a 25-year jail term since 2007 for human rights abuses and corruption. READ MORE: Illegal high: Peru declares no-fly zone over cocaine-producing areas Most of the victims were deceived, threatened or operated on without them even knowing, according to the rights group. The reported methods used by the authorities were not systematic. In some cases a signature of a relative was used to go ahead with an operation, in other cases victims were operated on secretly after giving birth. Human rights groups filed a complaint against the authorities in January 2014 after finding out that the investigation into the program had been closed after clearing the government of any wrongdoing. This is despite the rights groups receiving statements from 2,073 women, while 18 fatalities were recorded by activists from what they believe was the often secretive and slap dash surgery involved in the process. One of Peru’s top state prosecutors said on April 29 that the enquiry will be widened to include oral statements from more alleged victims in other areas of the country. The Peruvian feminist organization DEMUS, one of several rights groups that had filed the complaint, welcomed the move. "We've waited long enough for the government to investigate these 2,073 cases and hold ex-President Fujimori and his administration accountable for these reproductive rights abuses," Maria Cedano, head of DEMUS, told Reuters on Thursday. READ MORE: Greenpeace director appears in Peru court after ill-conceived Nazca Lines stunt It is unclear if Fujimori and his former officials can be charged with any crimes, although they are expected to come under close scrutiny when the probe continues. "There's no specific statement in the notice that the investigation will look into them, but prosecutors have the obligation to investigate the contextual element, to see if there was a state policy for the forced sterilizations, involving the the president and the ministry of health," said Monica Arango, a lawyer and director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Current President Ollanta Humala said he would investigate the forced sterilizations as part of his election campaign against Keiko Fujimori the daughter of the former dictator. However, after his victory in 2011 progress in the investigation has been slow.
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The It Was Never a Dress campaign is not only taking social media by storm, it is also changing the way we view the traditional women's bathroom sign. We see that the men's figure wears pants and the women's symbol wears a dress, but what if it was never meant to be a dress in the first place? Tania Katan launched the popular #ItWasNeverADress campaign at last week's 'Girls in Tech' conference with the idea that the female figure is instead wearing a cape, asserting that women can be superheroes or anything else they choose to be."
In this article it suggest that the stereotypical dress for the the women bathroom sign is not a dress, but a cape. This hows that women can be superheroes or whatever they want to be. Still today there is a lack of women in he workforce compared to men. For every 4 men working working for Google there is 1 women and half of them quit because of the poor work environment. I think this helps represent that women are capable of anything. This is an example of women in the workforce and gender equity.
Summary: This article basically explains the story of the recently emerged #ItWasNeverADress campaign. This is a pretty cool article because I never really payed attention to how even a restroom sign could be considered gender inequality.
Insight: This article is relevant to unit 6 because gender inequality is an important measure of development.
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Female Genital Mutilation (or FGM) is a serious concern, even in the 21st century. FGM refers to the process of intentionally altering or injuring the female genital organs for non-medical reasons, and it has no health benefits to women. Actually, quite the opposite. Problems arising from FGM include severe bleeding, problems urinating, cysts, infections, infertility, complications in childbirth, and an increased risk of newborn deaths.
And beyond the physical health dimension, FGM is recognised internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women, and reflects a deep-rooted sense of inequality between the sexes.
Basically, it shouldn’t happen. But, it does.
It is estimated that more than 125 million women and girls alive today have been subjected to FGM, usually by traditional circumsisers in their communities. Often, the people who carry out FGM also perform other roles, such as attending childbirths.
Where does it happen? Unlike some cultural practices, female genital mutilation isn’t isolated to one community, culture, or country. There are 27 African countries in which it is regularly practiced, and it also occurs in parts of the Middle East and Indonesia. Even when a country makes the practice illegal, it has,in certain instances, continued in secret within communities.
What’s the answer?
Education is definitely part of it, strengthening women’s rights is in there too, and law enforcement can play a role. Fortunately, the situation is slowly improving, with UN data reporting that the practice is less prevalent among adolescent girls than among their middle-aged counterparts in most of the countries in which FGM occurs.
It’s all good and well to for me to define the practice, or offer you some statistics. Some articles even include quotes from girls who have been cut. But today, I saw some really powerful, graphic photos, taken by Reuters photographer Siegfried Modola, who was given a rare level of access to a normally secret FGM ceremony in Baringo County, Kenya. For context, United Nations data suggests that more than a quarter of girls and women in Kenya have been cut.
Take a deep breath before you scroll down, because you’ll remember this. (Seriously, the following images are disturbing and not to be scrolled through lightly)
The Supreme Court debates same-sex marriage Tuesday. But in many states, a person can marry someone of the same gender and still be fired for being gay.
For me and many women, feminist and otherwise, one of the difficult parts of witnessing and wanting to rally behind the movement for transgender rights is the language that a growing number of trans individuals insist on, the notions of femininity that they’re articulating, and their disregard for the fact that being a woman means having accrued certain experiences, endured certain indignities and relished certain courtesies in a culture that reacted to you as one.
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