A Step Forward, the Association of Women's Rights in Development

A Step Forward, the Association of Women's Rights in Development

John Johnston

11/6/2008

11:45 pm

The Association of Women's Rights in Development is a group that holds public forums every three years, and this article highlights the association's meeting in South Africa. This meeting in South Africa is especially important because the association (and article) remembers three specific women's rights violations, in which two women were tortured and killed and one was forced to live in exile for many years (and still currently). The association attempts to address issues such as illeteracy, rape, murder, HIV/AIDS cases, political and religious. The overall goal of the assocation's forum was to unite encompass resolve in South Africa.

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Association's like these are what make the fight to women's rights worth the while. The article, while not important to the actual fight for women's rights, detailed a parade of purple dressed demonstrators and activists hanging flags and protesting in the streets. This is what makes the fight for women's rights worthwhile, and most importantly, publically broadcasted and hopefully successful. Without forums like this one, and many other associations and forums that the United Nations puts on, success is just around the corner and all we need is a little bit of pick-up by host nations. The biggest problem, here, is that people do not want to conform to ideas and rights that have surfaced within the last century or so. As this is the last blog entry that I will be doing, I would like to say that this has been a great and an enlightening project, and I hope that in some way, shape or form, change can be made and other country's that have not caught on will do so. With organizations like these, it is almost inevitable that it will.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-12-07-moving-from-helplessness-to-hope