Soc 202
2/11/2011
2:44 p.m
As I was looking through the different news articles of the issues that are going on around the world with women, a picture drew my attention towards the story that I chose to do my blog on this week. There is a girl named Bibi Aisha who was rescued by the U.S military from a women shelter after being severely hurt by her husband. She was brought over to the United States to have reconstructive surgery after having her nose and ears sliced off by her husband. Aisha who is only eighteen years old states that her husband has been very abusive towards her and she has been suffering domestic violence issues with him for awhile now until she was just tired of it so she ran away and went back to her family’s house where the Taliban commander forced her to be turned over to her husband to face justice and the justice was this obscene act. I looked at this story in different perspectives; we take advantage of the freedoms that we are allowed as an American. In a domestic violence case here in the United States the husband would be the one suffering but in this province in Afghanistan that is neglected and the bad part is considered her running away from her husband. This story has different sociological perspectives attached to it questions we could ask as far as “cultural” things such as for her to be so young and married was this an arranged marriage? Aisha was from Oruzgan province in Afghanistan where based on the details provided for this story it is evident that women there still have unequal rights and they are not held on the same platform when concerning justice. I wonder how high crime is against these women in this province if the verdict for this case by the commander was that Bibi Aisha was in the wrong?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/11/us-photography-prize-idUSTRE71A1XA20110211
1 comment:
My plan after college is to counsel women who have survived domestic violence and sexual assault. It is amazing what is exceptable in so many countries. Women's rights have a long way to go in many counties. I volunteer on the SA and DV crisis lines and am apalled at the number of calls I receive and what women themselves do not view as DV. The world needs a lot more education on this subject and laws to protect women.
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