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Fact and Fiction:

Fact and Fiction:. Women’s Rights in the Middle East Christyn Crisostomo Mahina Handley Jennifer Tunoa May 14, 2010. Our Goals. To compare and contrast the developments and drawbacks of women’s rights in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey Develop Understanding Educate to Spread Awareness

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Fact and Fiction:

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  1. Fact and Fiction: Women’s Rights in the Middle East Christyn Crisostomo Mahina Handley Jennifer Tunoa May 14, 2010

  2. Our Goals • To compare and contrast the developments and drawbacks of women’s rights in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey • Develop Understanding • Educate to Spread Awareness • Start a Movement

  3. Afghanistan • Taliban (1996-2001) • Laws for Women • Fashion • Burka • Freedom & Safety Issue

  4. More Problems • Marriage & Violence • Forced Marriages • 1 in 3 experience physical, psychological, or sexual violence • Education • Over 70% of girls don’t have access to education • 87% Illiterate

  5. Iran’s Improvement • Law against chadors February 1, 1936. • No longer required to wear full body coverings • Moving in positive direction for rights. • Current law: women only need to wear headscarf, or Hijab, in public Moving Forward Through Fashion

  6. Iran’s issues • Types of marital abuse • Marital rape, beating, biting, bondage, starvation, stoning, and imprisonment at home. • Husband’s permission needed to work • Testimony trials are only worth half of a man’s.

  7. Turkey • No Religious Government • No Islamic barriers on paper • Western Modernization influenced culture • Women’s Rights in Politics & Society • 1993: Tansu Ciller =1st female prime minister • Not required to ask husbands’ permission to work or travel • Equal pay for equal work

  8. A Major Drawback • Dishonor your family • By either: • Wearing tight clothes • Being seen with a guy that’s not your husband • Pre-marital sex • Being Raped • Any action deemed “dishonorable” Honor Killing: an ancient tradition still sometimes observed a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image

  9. What’s Being Done Women’s Organizations • Revolutionary Association of the Women in Afghanistan (RAWA) • Women’s Organization of Iran (WOI) • International Women of Istanbul (IWI)

  10. What Can We Do? Educate/Inform Start Groups Donate Money & Time Ask local broadcasting stations and print media to keep us informed

  11. Picture links • http://riverdaughter.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/women_in_middle_east1.jpg • http://www.themuslimwoman.org/entry/palestinian-women-suffering-the-most-in-a-lawless-society/ • http://www.hyscience.com/equalwomen.jpg • http://www.wfafi.org/hands.jpg • http://www.theworldly.org/images/Images/2008/July08/IranWomen3.jpg • http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pran0024/architecture/violence.jpg • http://www.dhushara.com/book/sakina/stoningetc/burning1.jpg • http://gdb.rferl.org/C6F5DA9A-0137-48DB-A7B6-6A09FABDD13B_mw800_mh600.jpg • http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/data/upimages/shendand_airstrike_woman.jpg • http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/1184768106000/00319/cv_Ciller_DW_Berlin_319244g.jpg • http://nicedeb.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/stoning_iran_honor_killing.gif • Http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LAM2S3vqiU0/SnfTg9Wz2PI/AAAAAAAABAg/Qc7w7bFbY64/s320/Forced.JPG

  12. More Picture links • http://www.photographytips.com.au/images/afghan-women-no-sex-no-food-photos1.jpg • http://www.themuslimwoman.org/page/38/ • http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/res/349.$plit/C_71_article_1122376_image_list_image_list_item_0_image.jpg • http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00157/IN8778281Burqa-clad_157587s.jpg • http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/afghan_women_burqa_nr.jpg • http://www.dullesnow.org/Afghanistan_Women_Mazar-i-Sharif_020702.jpg • http://www.rawa.org/beating.htm • http://images.forbes.com/media/2008/03/04/women_1.jpg • http://sfcmac.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/taliban_murder_two_women-afghanistan2.jpg • http://www.themuslimwoman.org/entry/tehran-fashion-week-2006/ • http://icons.iconseeker.com/png/fullsize/rounded-world-flags/iran-flag-1.png • http://www.iconspedia.com/uploads/2129750164.png

  13. Still More Picture links • http://www.iconspedia.com/uploads/2085265933.png • http://infidelsarecool.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/a-burqa-clad-afghan-woman-001.jpg • http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/76/0acomturkeyf4a.jpg • http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/02/05/1225827/129512-honour-killing.jpg • http://www.rawa.org/kab-jan05/burning2.jpg • http://dancull.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/rawa.jpg • http://www.fis-iran.org/en • http://www.iwi-tr.org/

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