Women's Rights

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Current Events with a Canadian Perspective

Last update

04 May 2012

Women’s Rights

Saudi Arabia is one of the last hold-out Arab

countries that does not allow women to vote; elsewhere in the Arab world females are making political progress

Between the 14th century and the 18th century

tens of thousands of “witches” were executed

in Europe; the gruesome ritual still happens elsewhere

A group of female vigilantes, mostly poor and illiterate,

in rural Indian is struggling to raise respect

for the human rights of women

Some of the most vulnerable people are subjected

to human rights abuses because they are powerless to resist

It’s against the law in Canada to have more

than one spouse at the same time.

It’s called polygamy, and it’s a crime

After centuries of repression in male-dominated societies,

Arab women are beginning to break out of the

restrictions that control their lives

Under the watchful eye of President Ramzan Kadyrov

once-rebellious Chechnya is turning into a conservative Muslim state; that’s bad news for its women

Women in Afghanistan endure a level

of suppression that most Westerners find offensive