Women have always been treated inhumanely and disrespected from the beginning of time. Their rights are not of equal value as their male counterparts. Through the stories of these victims we get to see their suffering and how their inner strength was far stronger than their prosecutors.
Anisa Memari, an Iranian woman, was a victim of religious persecution. In Iran, the Baha’i religion is not accepted or protected under the Islamic constitution and the people of this religion are not given the same rights as those of the Islamic religion. Those of Baha’i are not entitled to the same employment and education, as was Memari’s case. Ever since the moment Memari began school she excelled in her studies, but never felt like she fit in. Her teacher once told her, “If you were a Muslim, you could go to university because your grades are very high. However, because you are a Baha’i you cannot.” Memari finished first in her class, but again, her religion impeded her from receiving her valedictorian award. “You can try and put as much effort into things you do but people won’t respect you because you aren’t the right faith,” Memari lamentably said. In 2000, Memari’s father was in a terrible car accident that left him paraplegic. The family went to the police to seek compensation, but because of their religion if they did end up going to court they would not be allowed a lawyer and their religion would inhibit the case to be won. At this point Memari’s family decided to leave Iran and flee to Turkey. The family had no other choice than to sell their business, their home, and possessions to pay for their father’s medical bills. Memari’s mother and sisters went by car, and she and her family went by plane. Through “checkout” they had a lot of...
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Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. New York: Little, Brown and, 2013. Print.
According to statistics from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, of the 455 criminals on death row in the state only 7 of them are women . This should tip us off to the manner in which we treat female criminals, even in the most pro-death penalty state in the country. Overall, women account for one in eight of people arrested for murder in America, but this ratio sinks to only one in seventy people currently on death row . This discrepancy must be a direct result of something, and is most probably attributed to society’s perception of women that place these female criminals as women first, killers second. “It’s a reflection of society’s view that women are less prone to evil than men are”, claims Jenni Gainsborough of the ACLU National Prison Project. We also seem to feel sorrier for women than we do men, and assume that if a woman has committed a crime it is because she has faced abuse in the past (usually inflicted by a man). This is true to some extent as it is claimed that 95% of women in prison were victims of abuse , but the point is that we generally stress the importance of female abuse while oftentimes neglecting abuse endured by their male counterparts.
Malala’s Journey I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban At the intersection of life and death, lies Malala Yousafzai. She stood up to the Taliban when no one else did, she fought for girls education everywhere in the world when no one else could, and her powerful voice rang out among the bloody streets of Swat and into our hearts. Not only was she brave enough to achieve her goals, but she had the courage to do what was right.
In high school I learned about Malala Yousafzai and over the years I never allowed myself to forget about her significance and profound leadership abilities. She is a Pakistani activist who, while a teenager, spoke out publicly against the Taliban’s prohibition on the education of girls. She gained global media attention due to surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban when she was 15 years old. In 2014 Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace at 17 years old for her attributes to children’s rights. Malala became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Education is the Key Malala Yousafzai is an ordinary Pakistani girl, except for the fact that she is completely different from all of her other female comrades. She believes education is a right for everyone, and does not understand why the boys can play cricket while the women are stuck in the house cooking food for their husbands and family. Her own family, however, supports her, and gives her the freedom to a good education. From the introduction of I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot by the Taliban to the end of Part I, Yousafzai can be seen as a persistent individual, striving to pass on a message about the horrors of living in a typical war zone, dictated by an alarming group of individuals restricting women’s rights and claiming lives for their own benefits.
Writer, political activist, and feminist Malala Yousafzai once said, “One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.” Education is not a luxury, but rather a basis for survival; sadly, thirty-one million females ages five through eleven are not in a primary school and seventeen million of these females are expected to never enroll in school (Education). Malala Yousafzai fought, and is currently still fighting for education rights for women and children (Van). Malala Yousafzai defied a law which she determined unjust and was prepared to pay the ultimate price: her life. Due to Yousafzai’s personal beliefs, she choose to participate in civil disobedience by protesting the ban on education. Malala Yousafzai was successful in her actions through the use of peaceful protest. Yousafzai committed an act of civil disobedience in the eyes of the Taliban. Civil disobedience is defined as peace protest that violates a law intentionally (Suber).In addition to
The topic of women’s education is important, but unfortunately many people don’t think about the possibility of not having an education because of their gender. In the last couple of years she has been considered to be the “face of the global girls education movement”. She has really sparked people all over the world to consider education rights a critical issue that needs to be addressed. When I see anything related to women’s education rights, I think about Malala and how her presence in society has brought the topic to the forefront of discussion. She was a global symbol of girls' rights but also just a kid.
Malala is globally acclaimed for her courageous efforts in promoting children and women’s education under such extreme conditions. Recently, she was nominated for the European Union’s Sakharov human rights prize at a ceremony held on World Children’s Day this year. She was the first Pakistani woman to b...
Malala Yousafzai is a 20 year old woman’s rights and education activist born in Pakistan. Her parents always believed that education was key and everyone should have the right of an education. As Malala grew up believing this, she soon had her right taken away by the Taliban. During war in Pakistan, it was very dangerous to go to school because the Taliban believed that women should not have the right to an education. With school still open, Malala and her parents still wanted her to go to school.
Although in America and other developed nations equality is a right, there remain places where different people are denied rights based on their race and sex. One woman named Malala Yousafzai did not allow this to hinder her education, and for it, she was shot in the head. Malala used this near-death opportunity to write a book titled I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban in her book she advocates for the belief that education is a right of all humans. Malala achieved great fame, and with it, she has been able to inform hundreds of millions of people about the inequality women face in Islamic and Middle Eastern countries.
Yousafzai is a young education activist who has been striving for equal education rights for women and girls in Pakistan (Malala Yousafzai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 2014). Yousafzai came to the world attention as a blogger for BBC and by surviving an assassination attempt by a Taliban member in October 2012(Malala Yousafzai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 2014). Yousafzai struggles for equality are the type of struggles that come to minds of many when they think of the modern struggle for educational equality. She is a subject of an oppressive foreign government risking her life for what she believes in. Therefore, many feel that the struggle for educational equality is taking place in the far flung corners of the earth. When others think of the deistic struggle for equal education, they may think back to the 1950’s, 1960’s, or 1970’s. These decades are well known as the height of the American Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Liberation movement. While great strides were made in these decades, many would agree that the struggle for educational equality continue to this day. This statement is partially true when applied to the struggles of students with disabilities.
Yousafzai, Malala, and Christina Lamb. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and
Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. It is the very same “legacy of change” that Nelson Mandela used that inspires what Malala Yousafzai does today. At the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education. Since this appalling incident, Malala has gone on to be the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, start the “Malala Fund”, that funds education in developing countries, and is currently the figure of women’s rights. Malala has been constantly speaking, advocating and helping women and children acquire the rights they deserve. In her powerful speech to the U.N, she opened the world’s eyes to the truth about education
Malala Yousafzai, a survivor of a Taliban attack, knew that girls should be able to go to school and that the certain rules against women and children were wrong. She started out as a blogger for BBC, the article “Malala the Powerful” states, “The blog was an instant hit; soon, people all over the world were reading it. Malala was helping to focus attention on what was happening in Swat.” Malala took people who were once oblivious to what happens to her people and almost forced their attention on Pakistan and its government. Other activists use similar tactics to get the world’s engrossment in the society’s
“I am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai is a beautiful and hard breaking book at the same time. This book is an autobiography that describes the author childhood and her support on the right for girls to have an education. Through this autobiography, Malala describes the restrictions that are imposed on females in her country. There are many that believe that woman of Pakistan should not be educated in the other hands there are a few that oppose this idea. Malala’s support on education for girls almost cost her life, since she was shot by the Taliban. From a multicultural perspective Malala’s story touches on topics such; culture shock, discrimination within your own culture, oppression, religion, family and woman’s right. Despite the opposition