What I did last week was…hmm..I have read the Transformation of peace by Richmond Oliver, then I made some extra research on the position of women in Arab countries…
Actually I wrote about it during first 2 days of January…it was interesting to write about it, because it is always interesting to see what is right for developed countries and what they try to spread in developing countries. The title of my paper was about empowerment women in Arab countries…but there is no empowerment, because they have a lot of problems to solve before starting to empower women.
It was very interesting to see the evolution of society’s development. I needed to look at the Arab Human Development Reports from 2002 until 2009 and to see how violenced are women there. I also had to look some theoretical books, but of course statistics are more interesting. So I ll skip the theoretical aspect of the paper, which I had to write, but was not interested in at all ))
First of all I would like to mention the freedom issue, which was repeated in several reoports. Women dont have freedom in most of that countries and are violenced at home. And only in 2005 there was something about respecting the right of freedom, etc.
Then I want to talk about education issue. The quality of education there is very low, so they were trying to make it better. Especially starting from 2004. Because education is the key point of country’s economic and social development, and because uneducated people, especially women, are majority there, and because the level of unemployment are very high there, thats why economy of arab countries suffer.
Then it was something about citizenship, the respect of citizenship, etc.
Mostly I was suprised by the freedom, and because in some arab countries women dont have the right to vote so far.
So while women are equal to men and empowered in developed countires, in arab countries they still need to struggle for their freedom, its terrible. It means, that they even are not respected by their society.
The conclusion part was that, first of all women neet to be respected to have freedom, then only they can be empowered.
Im happy that I could to defend my paper somehow…because I cant talk infront of the public…and now again I have time to continue my reading of the book.
