Iranian women

Women all over the world face different challenges when it comes to domestic violence within their home. Some women are violated against their own will by their husbands, fathers, brothers, and in some cases even their own mothers. The problem here, is that they are all afraid to speak up because of the consequences that can be brought up. Some of these domestic violence issues lead to various issues that we have here in Houston alone. A company that I used to work with is involved with an…

disagree with some of the claims she makes, there are also a few points that we have in common. In the beginning of her article she states, “Men are absolutely frequent victims of domestic violence. Men are the victims of violence more often than women (¶ 3).” This statement is true when we are viewing a simple domestic violence case. Men may often engage in a brawl or heated argument with another man because it is just the nature of a man. Then she goes on to say that, “there are men who suffer…

statistics and studies draw on the claim that rape and sexual assault are psychologically tormenting experiences that will impact the victim’s life forever. The mental health impact of sexual trauma is undoubtedly a serious public health problem for women. Hopefully, with all the research that has been found, anyone who experiences the emotional aftermath of sexual trauma can recover in a way…

likely to be brutalized by the offender,” said, London J. Koenig and S. Levine in their 1983 interview titled: “Why men rape: interviews with convicted rapists. Koenig and Levine further legitimizes Danticat’s ongoing portrayal of violence against women and…

Mum with a Secret ‘When Mom Has a Secret’ is a long, but detailed, article by an American journalist and correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Tara Mckelvey. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, and The American Prospect. Mckelvey’s article angles the key events that bring up the past of the iconic terrorist group, SLA. The manifesto Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American made radical active group between 1973 and 1975 who considered…

Genocide. Derderian explains how after the murder of the Armenian leadership and military, Ottoman authorities and Ittihadist supporters sent surviving Anatolia Armenians to the Syrian desert for extermination. During the ethnic cleansing, Armenian women faced intense violence due to females representing the “genetic and cultural continuity” of a group. Derderian states how rape, kidnapping, sex slavery, and forced marriages became tools for enforcing genocide on the Armenians. As a result, the…

The Certainty about Domestic Violence Domestic violence sufferers can be found all over the world. According to figures, one in every three females worldwide has been ill-treated physically. The miserable thing is that sufferers of abuse generally have nowhere to consult. Many of these sufferers get blemished for life with rare treatment choices obtainable to them. One such domestic violence sufferer was Sara Corcoran Warner. She has faced many difficulties and every time she tried reporting the…

language in descriptions of rape (Kanekar, Kolsawalla, & D’Souza, 1981). Such expressions may in turn shape whether readers and listeners interpret these acts as voluntary acts of violence against an undeserving victim or as unfortunate experiences that women—at least in part—bring on themselves. (Frazer & Miller, 2008, p.70) Studies show that writers typically prefer the passive voice over active voice twice as often to describe male-on-female violence,…

The methodical violence against women has become one the most, if not the most important and detrimental issues across the globe. Violence against women involves a multitude of horrendous actions that range from rape and forced marriage, to genital mutilation (FGM) and feminicide. Gender-Based Violence (GBV) affects an unbelievable amount of women every year, according to the World Health Organization, one-third of the world’s women (translated to an estimated 1.140 billion individuals) have…

against women (What is White Ribbon?, 2014). The chief executive of White Ribbon, Libby Davis states that “We are working on prevention that is enabling change in attitudes and behaviours that absolutely allows violence to take place in the first place” (Davies, 2015). It does this through promoting the issue in schools, for youths, in workplaces and through annual campaigns. It employs several of the key action areas in the Ottawa Charter to promote an acceptable level of wellbeing for women,…