India’s culture prefers sons to daughter because of cultural
reasons. India females have their baby daughters killed after an ultrasound scan has revealed the sex of the baby as female. Narinder, a school
teacher, had to marry a girl far away from his hometown because there are not
enough brides in his town. People in this village even new it was wrong to
prefer sons to daughters and still practiced the killing of unborn females. The
culture of India says that sons are considered a blessing and daughters are
considered a curse. Shafiq Khan, a former Maoist rebel, is a person who is
trying to take action against the mistreatment of women in India. The reporter
meets women who do not have a voice, women that are abused and raped. The
Indian people call these women Paro, or strangers. The trafficking women mostly
come from the poor northeastern states of India and accounts for all the
missing women in India. There are many scenes of beatings in this article and
raping’s of women and apparently the police are corrupt in India so the girls
are forever scared once they have been raped or abused by their husbands.
1. What ways has dignity of a person
been violated here
2. What human right is being violated
and why? How can we prevent this from happening to women?
From the very beginning of Indian civilization, women have been viewed as unequals and undesirable. Common belief was that all embryos are inherently male and female children are only the product of weak semen. Women in India were compelled to obey their fathers, their husbands, and their sons; thus, they were never capable of voicing their own opinion. The violation of human dignity has been a continuity in history for centuries. But despite this precedent for inequality, the horrendous actions occurring in India are unacceptable; however, it is understandable, given history, that women are unwilling to stand up for their own inalienable rights. Although rape and abuse stories have made headlines in the news, no large actions by either females or males are being taken in India, at least visibly. Mistreatment violates the basic right to human dignity and the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, seen in the example the article provides about Akhleema and her sister, Tasleema. It is important for India’s leaders to give women the courage and confidence to stand up for themselves and spread the message that Indian women no longer need to be subordinate to men. Gandhi spread the message of nonviolence, however, he also spread the message of noncooperation and Indian women, along with the rest of the Indian population, must find a way to stand up against the violence that plagues women’s lives.
ReplyDeleteHuman dignity is being violated in all ways by having this happen. The Catholic Church's view on human life is that it starts at conception and that a baby is formed once the two cells meet. By killing off the female fetus before conception, the doctors are essentially stripping this baby of potentially having a great and prosperous life just because it isn't the gender that the parents want it to be. All humans are made I. The likeness and image of God and we all have the right to live no matter if we are female or male.
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