Violence In The Democratic Republic Of Congo

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Causation of this will inevitably create new challenges faced by women and their young such as, foraging for water and food, plotting them in the middle of another vulnerable situation of being exposed to more violence. Without money, transportation, and connections to resources, women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are left with no way to escape the terrors.
When the United States led the invasion to attack and ultimately provide the fatality of Saddam Hussein, this imprisoned many women into sectarian violence that specifically targets women and girls. Taking women from their homes by force, more than 1 million of the women have been displaced from their homes, stripping their lives leaving little to nothing of ownership. This results
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In areas where tribal borders are located, the reality of male’s owning the title of ‘guardianship’ over their wife becomes a traditional and normal way of households in the culture of the tribes. If a man commits a crime, the systems of tribal cultures proclaim that instead of the man himself serving time or having to forego traumatizing consequences, his wife will suffer for him by forcibly being gang-raped as punishment. The actions towards abuse on women only get worse for example: Honor killing is more widespread and the religious extremists that partake in this are targeting female politicians, human rights workers, and lawyers. There is no one sane individual in this world, that would consider being a female in those conditions. The same type of control is similarly demonstrated in Saudi Arabia, where women are treated as life-long dependents, under the declared rights of guardianship of a male relative. Women in Saudi Arabia are daily deprived of life’s simplest pleasures, such as the right to drive a car, and social rights to mix and mingle with men in a public setting. Saudi women are to do nothing and say nothing except for being confined strictly segregated lives on a mindset revolving around pain of severe …show more content…
“Women had literally been treated like dirt beneath men’s feet under the Taliban and now they’re able to go to school and work. The Afghan constitution even decreed women’s rights. Some 25% of the lower house of parliament has seats that must be reserved for women. That’s affirmative action, but it’s right”, confirmed by CNN’s, Samuel Burke. After World War II, they released a strong emphasis on international organizations through the U.N., and did a range of intensive efforts beginning to include African women in newly formed transnational women 's groups. Iris Berger once released information on Italian and Ethiopian progress of refinement that said, “In its campaign for peace in 1934, however, WILPF was the first international organization to call on the League of Nations to take action against the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The following year WILPF sponsored a radio broadcast in which the Empress appealed to the women of the world to make their voices heard in protest "in the firm, united demand that the horrors of useless bloodshed and overwhelming ruin shall not be.” Relief is more likely to be seen in less-impacted countries due to easy ability to transfer the population into the acceptation of change. As for eastern feminist cultures,

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