Women fighting for their rights (PAKISTAN)

Women fighting for their rights(PAKISTAN)

WOMEN FIGHTING

In almost every country of the world, women are fighting for their rights: their rights to have a real place in the society. To make people hear their voices and listen to it. Or just to have same rights as men. It's with the evolution of our society that women really started to rebel themselves, discovering they have, need and deserve the same rights as their husband, sons or friends.

Especially in Pakistani. In this country, women don’t have real rights and it’s hard for them to make people hear their voices. Moreover, when they make it, in most cases it’s thanks to internet that they succeed, their place in the medias are almost non-existent, instead of cinema or in publicity where they only have the wife’s or mom’s statue.

CONTEXT

In ancient times the women produced food for the family. In that era women had learned how to cultivate the land. Men used to hunt only. That is why women had a particular recognition in society. And over a period (of time) she became the head of the family.

Today also, in the rural areas, women are like slaves subject to drudgery. They are there just to obey their fathers, brothers and husbands. They do not have the right to decide about themselves because women are considered as foolish creatures according to the dominant social and cultural norms. Likewise, marriage is also a sort of trade between different families both in the rural and urban areas. They are highly vulnerable to violation of their rights to life.

A woman's right to liberty is restricted in the name of modesty, protection and prevention of immoral activity. Male family members keep a strict eye on the female family members in the name of "honor". But one must understand the meaning of honor because in our society honor does not have the meaning of its true sense. Here it really means possession of women as a form of property.  Moreover the medias are presenting a fake image of women:  “Women in Pakistan in particular are portrayed by the media mainly in two major roles, either as sex objects or housewives,” Said Nida Fatima Zaidi 

MALALA

To continue, when we first though about Pakistani our firsts thoughts where about Malala Yousafai, a young feminist activist, and the way she has imposes herself in medias, even if she was and attack threatened to death. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, this girl spoke out. She refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. She has been awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament.  

Her fight wasn’t useless, according to UNESCO, Pakistan has the world’s second highest number of children out of school — 5.1 million in 2010 — and girls make up two-thirds of these children. The situation is most dire in rural areas, where education for girls is all too often opposed on religious grounds. They said that there is as many as 57 million children around the world who don’t have opportunities to go to school. Those children “do not want an iPhone, a PlayStation or chocolate. They just want a book and a pen,” Malala said.

Despite the global acclaim for her activities that have won her many other international awards on human rights, Malala’s achievements have not been welcomed by everybody in her native Pakistan. Her detractors reportedly charge that Malala is being used in a campaign to emphasize the negative aspects of the country, including terrorism, or that the Western show of respect for her heroic activism is an act of hypocrisy that ignores the suffering of many civilian victims of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan.

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