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Are women's rights, human rights? : Comments
By Kali Goldstone, published 17/6/2011International human rights law does not effectively protect women from sexual and reproductive violations
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<I feel incredibly angry at the way these poor woman, girls and female babies are treated in some places in the world.
The practice of infanticide of females is particularly abhorrent to me. The act of actually killing many female babies simply because they are female!>
This exactly what inflammatory stories do, that is their aim. The aim is to stimulate the limbic system to over ride the much more advanced neurocortex.
For those with limited memory or selective memory, not that long ago, there was mass hysteria over breast implants causing all sorts of disorders in women. There were the usual compelling heartbreaking stories about breast implants causing cancer excetera.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/swell_lawyers/
Well it turns out eventually that breast implants were safe and were not causing disease in women.
Up until this stage the claim makers, and the media had a ball. Since then silence.
In many countries around the world, western countries are painted as being evil and decandent.
So who is right and who is wrong?
I do not beleive that we have the right to impose western cultural ideals onto other cultures, which is much the same as imposing roman catholic or protestant beliefs on other cultures, when there is still much to be improved on in our own culture.