I generally refrain from discussing controversial topics. In fact, this platform concerns human rights rather than politics, so there has never been a need to merge the two. I find myself here, though, where the line between human rights and political polarization has been blurred. I find myself here, in 2022, where the foundation of women’s rights are in jeopardy.
gender rights
Experts say it will take 40 years for the divide between women and men’s rights to close, specifically the gender pay gap. The gender pay gap is the typical difference between the compensation for working men and women.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines reproductive healthcare as a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system.”
500 million women and young girls worldwide experience some degree of period poverty, according to UN Women. Period poverty is the inadequate access to menstrual hygiene tools and education, which includes access to sanitary products, washing facilities, and waste management.
Young women everywhere are robbed of a proper and secure education. Their communities have failed them as they do not have a solid basis of understanding that is necessary to thrive in the world.
A man beheads a young girl with a farming sickle. Another runs a girl over and kills her in a parking lot. A taxi driver murders two teenage sisters by shooting them 11 times in the back of his cab.
Child marriage exists among generations of young girls. One girl in particular, Maryam Zarrinpar, married when she was eleven years old. At such a young age, she was forced to live the traditional life of an Iranian wife.