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Sara Visitor Jan 10, 2005 - 18:17    I got a video for christmas were a girl named Joanna Skye had taken the all male sport of treasure hunting and turned it around to be the best treasure hunter ever. Way to go Joanna !

pauk Visitor Feb 14, 2005 - 01:22    there is no freedom in laos

Sundar Visitor Jun 21, 2005 - 19:49    To quote Paul. "I think rights for women are fine, as long as subserviance of men are not expeted!" What are you really afraid of Paul? Why would you even have to add " as long as suberviance of men are not expexted". That is not at all what equal rights are about. Once again, it is not alllll about YOU MEN and what YOU MEN think and feel. It should be about what women and men both think and feel equally. And if you think having to be subserviant is appalling, well maybe you will have a better understanding and sympathetic ear to what women have had to put up with.

Hanan Visitor Aug 11, 2005 - 16:57    Please help support Iraqi Women. Every entry will send money to this cause. http://speakup.oxygen.com/campaigns/womensrights/

Michael New Collaborator Registered: Dec 2005 Post Number: 1 Dec 13, 2005 - 09:28    I'm just writing here about music, and the way women's rights can be represented through it. Bif Naked, from Canada writes on a lot of women's issues, and her music is both really soft but also heavy and strong, it's a good mix. From abortion to abuse, it's there in her songs and it's written so well. Anyone interested in reading her lyrics check out her page or official site: http://www.herroyalmajestysrecords.com/bif/index.html www.myspace.com/bifnaked Cheers, Michael

hariharan Visitor Mar 15, 2006 - 05:26    Consequences of IPC498a on India- Infact, the problem is our Indian ppl are poisoned by radical Feminists organisations dangerously for a decade. Whether a male or female, a child doesn't know. They acquire knowledge through the society. Current society contains most vultures in the form of radical Women NGOs as self-centered. Continuos spread of hatred towards a man and dowry made these little children prone to poison. Dowry is a social custom in India for centuries. None can stop it. Crime by dowry DEMAND is nothing but greed. we already have laws for cheating, greedy, characterless fellows. why this 498a? and 'mental tension clause' ...nothing but CORRUPTION. If you see a women around 18 or 20+ and she is straightly, against a man and male society. Though, she is brought up by her father, brother. still she says men are bad. It is not their fault. These vultures should be brought to justice. If they were in USA, by now they would have met their fate. Rascals of the country, devastating the culture of my country. There is no way for an Indian men to escape bad marriage or bad wife without hicking up himself into big trouble? Even men want to separate in first year...several years of several thousand rupees has to be compensated for such bad women. Forget about child custody for fathers in India for such marriages. It takes atleast 5 yrs. of rigorous legal battle JUST TO GET RID OF BAD(or adultery) wife in India. How many unmarried Indian boys know this? These men already created an image of SITAs in their heart for INDIAN WOMEN. How many young men know, how dangerous, marriage in India is? It won't be new any more to have cases like http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar152006/city2010262006314.a sp --CONTNUES BELOW Disclaimer: These are my perceptions only. Nothing to do with other's or an attempt to..

hariharan Visitor Mar 15, 2006 - 05:32    -Consequences of IPC498a on India- if you notice, population increased rapidly sometime later this IPC498a is enacted by legislation. Main reason, marital discord between men and women. Many women were not capable of earning, but learn about this law by parents for their selfish reasons. Man being not happy with his wife, and under 498a threat from time to time. The men who are in threat are greatly public servants,social ppl, highly educated, scientists in urban areas participating infrastructure design for the country. what happens when these ppl.are not healthy in living? That naturally gets affected on the rural areas. No proper planning, infrastructure got affected, wisdom got lost and the country led to 48% poverty level now(eating one meal in a day). Some men can act like http://www.saveindianfamily.org/blogs/category/stories/ig_radha/ to counter. There is no other way round. Social-engineering sense mitigated ppl. continue to rule the country. country leads to graveyard. we may be almost there. To add gas to fire, domestic violence bill is introduced. Sec.3 is designed very dangerously. But common man doesn't understand and falls into the marriage again. what these vultures wanted from india. They are indians too. Even if they are funded by western interests, they should not have sacrificed India for the whole purposes. Britishers who directly ruled India are far better than these ppl, who have already poisoned the society. Currently, on an average 52% divorces in the first 5 years of marriages all over urban cities have started. who take responsibility for this? do these vultures? Many children are with single parenting. Singel parent children are more prone to crimes in any culture by statistics. who takes this responsiblity.? do these vultures? Many elderly ppl. who gave everything to their children sacrificing their life and earnings and happiness are homeless due to this law or are living themselves. Do these vultures take responsibility for it? Marriage and divorces are purely personal in nature or relation. Every individual got 'Rights' over it. who are these feminists organisations to involve in compromising or resolving such issues. who are these dictators over person's life.? The problem is INDIAN MEN themself. They became so foolish, that they are not able to understand, how their health has became supporting these NGOs and their biased laws. Today, Diabetes rates for Indian men is one among largest in the world. Their faces are rotten and pale(serving families like animals do). Many other young men are starved of sex, they think of women all together differently as decades back. For each 498a, on an average, there is atleast 1 lakh of money being spent in urban area by the family for various reason from corruption to bail. In higher middle class families, where good earning is there, the expense spent by husband and his family easily goes to 10 lakhs. Wife has to be compensated for quashing the case --till-- to court clerk. If an NRI is caught by the police, excellent day for the bad ppl. Several lakhs are spilt. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow? msid=136812 If one notices, many women NGOs, politicians are behind NRIs, stating provision of cell phones for NRI assaulted women,advertising in newspaper about NGO to report to. I believe, most of these organisations are just waiting to get calls by NRI wife. The day call is received by NGOs, happy to screw more happily that family, as there is big booty in it. Americans recognize the tantrums of Indian politicians indirectly. http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html? article_id=768649893bc5975ce97b6bff5354c210 Supreme court is hand folded due to fear of ANT population of Women NGOs dharna for any action being taken-- http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/22/stories/2005072202631500.htm . India is whining; there is completely dirt inside the parliament. Who will clean this? So who is benefitting out of this whole process. NO ONE, BUT COUNTRY DEVASTATES. Disclaimer: These are my perceptions only. Nothing to do with other's or an attempt to.. WWW.498A.ORG

visitor Visitor Apr 18, 2006 - 23:13    THIS is what some YOUNG BOYS, CHILDREN, ALREADY THINK ABOUT WOMAN!!! No, women don’t have hearts, minds, and feelings. They are just objects. Well, if you wanted to add to this list of what males think, you could add that women also DON'T HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS!!! Some men think women are the dumbest things that walked the earth. EVEN IF THEY ARE DUMB DUMBS THEMSELVES! This just makes me really mad. Even PRE-SCHOOL little boys treating their woman teachers unfair because of what they have learned from other men... WOW! What, we are dumb because of physical appearances. Because we look smaller, sassier, weaker, that means we are dumb?! So, it's all about appearance with men... we must do something to change their opinion! Woman weren't supposed to learn. We are now. We were not supposed to vote, speak our minds, have jobs, and not were the clothes we thought were good. WE DO NOW!! I please encourage all of us woman out there to keep trying our best to get equal rights, no matter what is said about us. This problem will just keep getting worse! Tell all of your daughters to be intelligent, not so ditsy and a "mean girl" (snotty, only making boys/men think all we have to offer is appearances.) This should make you anger... look up on some of the SEXEST things men have done to women.

sarah jane Visitor Jun 26, 2007 - 21:28    Most white imperial powers, whether official or economic powers, have a policy of "respecting the culture of their colonial people". I'm black, and my dad is white. I look more African-American. Informally, blacks accept it if a girl who looks mulatto dates outside her race, but not if she looks black. To make a long story short, I want the Catholic Church, to kill me. I don't have the courage, to committ suicide. I know the church has murdered plenty of people, and I want them to kill me too. I don't care if every other black woman on earth is a whore, as long as my kind is free. Kill me, to buy the freedom of others like me.

hannah flint New Collaborator Registered: Jul 2007 Post Number: 2 Jul 13, 2007 - 00:00    Hi all, I’m a law student looking to spend some time in Ghana helping to increase knowledge of basic human rights and to ensure that ordinary people understand what protections they are entitled to by law - in particular I will be working with woman and children. Unfortunately for me to participate in this project it’s going to cost £2000 and as I have spent the last two years in hospital I have been unable to raise this money. If anyone would be interested in sponsoring this worthwhile trip let me and I can spend full details of the project. Thanks everyone.

David Raj New Collaborator Registered: Aug 2007 Post Number: 1 Aug 13, 2007 - 12:12    Sexual Harassment of women at the work place Sexual harassment , an insidious form of violence against women, is common to all cultures. The stories are strikingly similar from country to country; only the names and the places change . Sexual harassment can take a variety of forms . It includes both physical violence and subtle forms of non-physical violence such as emotional and psychological harm or suffering to women, including economic and professional injuries, Like other forms of violence, sexual harassment to the work place is a demonstration of power and control and above all it exemplifies a form of gender discrimination or gender inequality, Examples of sexual harassment from around the world have shown that the elimination of this problem is a difficult task , women often fear retribution if they report inappropriate conduct, hence they rarely report instances of sexual harassment, The victims are ashamed or embarrassed about their experiences and they feel that their claims will not be taken seriously , Even if a women does report sexual harassment, it is often difficult to prove the occurrence of sexual harassment due to lack of circumstantial evidence and witnesses unwilling to testify in support of the victim, This is because either the conduct occurs when the two parties are alone or other employees are afraid of jeopardizing their own jobs . Employers too, often fail to treat the problem of sexual harassment seriously or appropriately Often organizations do not take measures for prevention of sexual harassment at their premises until ti becomes unbearable for some of their female employees or another crisis arises . This booklet provides a general understanding of the problem of sexual harassment of women at the work place, the exiting international safeguards, the legal approaches adopted by different countries , the Indian approach to the problem and the initiatives taken by the National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC) Protection Against Sexual Harassment in International Law In countries that provide legal protection against sexual harassment two types of conduct in work place have generally been prohibited 1. Quid pro quo sexual harassment , and 2. Harassment that creates a hostile work environment , 1. Quid pro quo Sexual Harassment Quid pro quo is a Latin phrase meaning something for something quid pro quo sexual harassment refers to a demand of sexual favors and the threat of adverse job consequences if the demand is refused . To establish a prima facie case of quid pro quo sexual harassment, a plaintiff must show that : 1. the employee belongs to a protected class; 2. the employer subjected the employee to unwelcome conduct in the form of sexual advances or requests for sexual favours; 3. the harassment was bases upon sex; and 4. the employee’s acceptance or rejection of the harassment was an express or imides condition to the receipt of a job benefit or the cause of a tangible job detriment, If a plaintiff in a sexual harassment case is able to establish each of the above elements, then the burden to prove otherwise shifts to the employer employee must then establish that the reasons provided by the employer are not the real reasons for the employment decision and are merely a pretext for unlawful discrimination,

David Raj New Collaborator Registered: Aug 2007 Post Number: 2 Aug 13, 2007 - 12:16    3. hostile work Environment Sexual Harassment Sexual harassment also accurse when an individual experiences physical conduct of a sexual nature where such conduct has the purpose of effect of unreasonably interfering with that individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating , hostile , or offensive working environment. To establish a prima fancies case of sexual harassment based on hostile work environment , a plaintiff must show that : 1. the plaintiff belongs to a protected class; 2. the plaintiff was subjected to unwelcome sexual harassment ; 3. the harassment was bases on sex: 4. the harassment affected a term , condition , or privilege of employment; and 5. the employer knew or should have known the conduct was occurring . The United Nations and other international organizations have all recognized that women’s rights are human rights, and that violence against women is violation of the human rights of women. These organizations have specifically condemned sexual harassment in a series of international instruments as a prohibited form of violence against women, As sexual harassment violates the rights to just and favorable conditions of work, this fact has been recognized by the United Nations in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). In addition, a government’s failure to provide an effective remedy to the victims of sexual harassment violates the rights to an effective remedy for the violation of fundamental human rights guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the UDHR. As such the United Nations has emphasized the responsibility of member states to create conditions that protect the human rights of individuals and in particular of women in public and private life, and has acknowledged that governments may be made responsible for inaction in the face of human rights abuses by private actors just as they are for abuses committed by state actors . This express condemnation of human rights violations commonly experienced by women relicts a growing recognition international organizations and non-governmental organizations , largely ignored the experiences of women by focusing mainly on violations of civil and political rights, Notwithstanding the serious limitation in these documents with respect to sexual harassment the strong international condemnation of sexual harassment may provide the necessary legitimacy to people at large working to adopt national legislations to prohibit sexual harassment in countries that have not yet addressed the problem. The following paragraphs look into a few of the prominent United Nations Conventions, which address the issue of sexual harassment. The United nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

Matt Visitor Sep 19, 2007 - 18:22    Here's A Funny Joke Women Have Rights LOL JKZ Matt Degrassi (cartman57@hotmail.com)

Mike Visitor Apr 17, 2008 - 22:51    Im a step-dad. Well, not yet. I'm engaged to a beautiful and loving young woman. We live in North Ga, somewhat happily until the last couple of weeks. My fiancee's child's father was under strict supervised visitation until this past week. He has had a restraining order placed against him, 2 DFCS investigations (both Ga. and Tn.), has sent racially biased pictures and messages to the childs mother, admitted to striking the child (who is a 3 yr old little girl), and has posted vulgar and drug related pictures of himself on the internet. This person has not been alone with this child in almost 1 year. His visitis have consisted of 2 hours while being over seen by a counselor. This child has been in counseling for 1 year now to do diagnosed post traumatic stress syndrome. This particular county's Judicial system has now written an order, which was written by the father's attorneys, allowing the father 6 weekends in a row worth of unsupervised visitation. The father has 2 attorneys working on this and unforntunately the mother has only one, and her previous attorney agreed to this order without the consent of the mother. She has proof she did not agree to this and was mis-represented, pictures, counselors reports, and more, but yet the judge refuses to amend the order. Would you like to know why? She is basically being discriminated against, and the main victim in the whole thing is this little girl. I don't have any idea on what to do. We are out of money, noone will listen, the judges won't work with us, and her last attorney even insulted and belittled her in an email making comments about her morals and personal life. She is a good person. The child is happy and healthy. This is all wrong. Please offer advice. What do you do when you are a victim of the "buddy system" and you can't seem to find a helping hand, nor able to afford one? We are desparate to help this child. The mother doesn;t want to keep the child away from the father, but she does want to protect her. Now that an attorney who let down his client and a biased judge have signed an order, we have no hope. She will be left to the wolves, and if we refuse to let her go, we will be punsihed. What do we do? We need any help or advice we can get. Please if you have had a similar ordeal or know of someone, or an institution, that could help, please let us know. We both work full time, are students, and are just getting by the best that we can. The mother's parents are both diabled (her father being a disabled vet) and on limited income, and my family just doesnt have it to help us.

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