Kourtney Reynolds
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Blog 4
According to the dictionary,
a human right is a right that is believed to belong
justifiably to every person. In many studies this right includes safety. In the
parts of Africa discussed in this article, safety is rarity and a luxury. This
article focuses on what is considered to an “oasis” for African Asylum seekers
and its dedicated leader, Sister Aziza. Sister Aziza saves as a safe haven for
Africans that are escaping from danger within their own countries through the Sinai
Desert to flee to Israel. Sister Aziza is a nun whom practices as a nurse for
the African refuges. She has conducted over 1300 interviews and seen thousands
of people and out them n path to recovery. These interviews expose the rapes,
kidnapping, torture, forced, labor and slavery these refugees have experienced
and survived. She does not do this alone, but does serve as maternal figure for
everyone helping heal him or her emotionally not physically. She has shined an enormous
light on the trafficking issues in the Sinai. Her stories stretch from women
raped to men beat to near death. Sinai desert is a prominent for people
trafficking from sub-Saharan Africa. In the process of trafficking their
families may be blackmailed, as they are tortured. Bedouin gangs hold them
captive and continue to torture them many times until family members pay a
ransom for that loved one. This is often much worse for women. From a
Sociological perspective, I see the masculinity as vulnerability. Currently in
these deserts, men are unable to protect their families and fall vulnerable to
the traffickers. Also, although not exactly what may be thought of when is comes
to word matrifocal, I see this oasis as matrifocal with Sister Aziza being the
mother figure. Yet as the book states, the constant rapes, sex trafficking, and
harsher punishments with the desert support the continued perils of being a
female.
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/20/sister-gives-hope-to-trafficked-migrants/
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