Liberation of Women: August 2004 Archives

Domestic Violence can be described as when one adult in a relationship misuses power to control another. It is the establishment of control and fear in a relationship through violence and other forms of abuse. The violence may involve physical abuse, sexual assault and threats. Sometimes it?s more subtle, like making someone feel worthless, not letting them have any money, or not allowing them to leave the home. Social isolation and emotional abuse can have long-lasting effects as well as physical violence.

PROUT editor’s note: Is it not a matter of shame that even in 21st century human beings are becoming the victims of dowry harassments? There are uncountable incidents of killing related to dowry. The following articles will tell us the real story. Shrii P. R. Sarkar, the founder of PROUT elaborated about this well established ill practice of human society (Indian society in particular) in many of his invaluable articles. Please click on the following links to read his view on this burning issue of dowry system:

Women’s Rights, Dowry system and marriage and
Social Justice for Women

PROUT Editor's note: As the article below emphasizes, women need many things but most important of all they need education. Without education they will not understand what are their rights. With education, not only will they understand their rights but they will fight for those rights. This maxim applies not just to women but all the impoverished, suffering people of the world - the 50 million people in the USA who are denied health insurance and as a result die prematurely, years before they needed to - along with the entire population of Iraq and Afghanistan who do not yet know that their air, soil and water are completely contaminated by depleted uranium dust from American bombs, and hence their descendants have only a 5% chance of being born normal - without physical mutations, and that they all will fall sick one after the other to the poison that is depleted uranium, just as the American soldiers have already fallen sick in the thousands - unknown to the American public. And if the black Sudanese in Darfur had education, they would have acquired the confidence and the wherewithal to fight their oppressors in the form of the janjaweed and the Sudanese government. This is why education - the right kind of education which includes teaching about women's rights, the rights of the poor and downtrodden, the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples, education that includes the study of human rights and methods of civil disobedience (to adopt when human rights are denied by governments) is the crying need of the day.
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by Gustavo Capdevila

GENEVA, Aug 9 (IPS) - Abuses against indigenous or other minority women, referred to merely as ''double discrimination'' by experts and activists, has not yet been understood in its full dimension.

Although both men and women belonging to ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples suffer discrimination, it is women who do so in a multi-pronged fashion, argue Fareda Banda and Christine Chinkin, researchers with the Minority Rights Group (MRG), an international organisation based in Britain.

RIGHTS-INDIA:

Ranjit Devraj

NEW DELHI, Aug 9 (IPS) - India's Supreme Court has indicated its determination to ensure that victims of rape and murder in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in western Gujarat state ruled by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) get justice.

NOW Members Pledge to Re-Defeat Bush in 2004

July 19, 2004

"It's time to send George W. Bush back to the ranch," said NOW (National Organization for Women) President Kim Gandy, addressing attendees of the 2004 National NOW Conference in Las Vegas, Nev. "And we're also going to send his corporate cronies who have tried to privatize the country back to the private sector—unless, of course, their jobs have been outsourced."

PROUT Editor's Note: Prabhat Sarkar had unbounded commitment to the destruction of the caste system. Once when He was told that casteism was God's rule, He said, "I shall remove casteism from society." When told casteism is God's injunction, Sarkar replied, "You say it is God's rule, but this Prabhat will detroy it anyhow." [Source: Ac. Krpananda Avt.] In Bihar the bastion of casteism and Hindu orthodoxy, Sarkar started a revolutionary spiritual movement called Ananda Marga. He required all Brahmins to remove their sacred threads forever. He required all Margiis to marry people from other castes. His movement created a big stir in Bihar society. Today the legacy of His unstinting sacrifice and commitment to the destruction of superstition, dogma and casteism lives on in His ideology of Neo--Humanism and PROUT.
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