Mistreatment of women in India

[FlickerSingh]

China Human Rights Fact Sheet

This fact sheet was prepared by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. It is based on information provided by Amnesty International-USA, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Human Rights in China, the International Campaign for Tibet, the Puebla Institute and the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights. The accompanying resource list provides contact information for these organizations.


Violence Against Women: According to some researchers, spousal abuse is far too common and, in many parts of the country, still socially acceptable. However, comprehensive statistics about the extent of domestic violence are not available or have not been made public. The official All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) has been studying this problem and seeking solutions.

Few battered women have the opportunity to escape abuse, because shelters and other resources are not available. Women are under considerable social pressure to keep families together regardless of the circumstances. Legal action is not taken against batterers unless the victim initiates it, and if she withdraws her testimony, the proceedings are ended.

Abduction and Trafficking of Women: Trafficking and sale of women as brides or into prostitution is a serious problem in certain parts of China, and Chinese women have been sold into brothels in Southeast Asia. The PRC government has enacted various laws to combat the sale of women, but the statistics released by the government do not reliably indicate the scale of the problem. PRC officials stated that there were 15,000 cases of kidnapping and trafficking in women and children in 1993. Yet according to one estimate, 10,000 women were abducted and sold in 1992 in Sichuan Province alone.
Until recently, the authorities have not prosecuted men who purchase women as wives; thus, the trade has continued unabated. Official action to rescue victims of trafficking is generally initiated only if a complaint is made by the woman or her family. Local officials often turn a blind eye, even formally registering marriages into which the woman has been sold.

send our female tourists to amazing china to be safe especially in sichuan province

 

[Justin Joseph]

@grey buy u seems to concern about women, i'm helping u to help women in china

thanks



Radio Free Asia: Work Woes Dog China's Women


China's women have legal protection against workplace discrimination—at least in theory, they say.

AFP

HEFEI, China: Women check job listings as thousands gather at a job fair, Feb. 5, 2009.

HONG KONG—Discrimination in the workplace still presents major obstacles to equality for Chinese women, according to a series of interviews with Chinese women and social commentators.

"On the face of it, there seems to be equality under the Chinese Communist Party. But in reality it's very unequal," Guizhou-based independent commentator Wu Yuqin said.

On International Women's Day, 2009, Chinese women still face major barriers to finding work in the graduate labor market and fear getting pregnant if they have a job, out of concern their employer will fire them, a common practice despite protection on paper offered by China's Labor Law.

"I have a lot of friends who went to Shanghai to work," Wu said.

"None of them dares to get pregnant because they're afraid that their employer will just replace them with someone else."

Wu said Chinese women often are unaware that such discriminatory practices are illegal and get little help from official bodies.

"These organizations like the All China Women's Federation are useless because they are under the Party. They have no real freedom to act independently," she said.

Labor rights 'violated'

Liu Feiyue, of the nongovernmental group Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, agreed.

"In terms of women's employment rights, there are still a lot of cases in which women's rights are violated," he said.

"For example, in the labor market, there are a lot of employers who simply don't want to employ a woman."

Liu also cited a lack of workplace safety measures for low-paid women workers, who are often migrants from rural areas with little education.

"There is also the issue of health hazards to women from environmental pollutants in the workplace, which can be harmful to their health," he said.

"What's more, they're not protected by health insurance, and they can't claim the fees back for health care."

Overseas rights groups cite high levels of unemployment among highly qualified Chinese women, while unskilled migrant women workers are preferred by employers as being less likely to take a stand on labor rights, pay, and working conditions.

Women as resource

Yang Lili, an editor at the U.S.-based human rights Web site Observe China, said the status of women never really improved during the Mao era, despite Mao's dictum about their holding up "half the sky."

"Mao and the Chinese government viewed women as more of a labor force, a production source, rather than as human beings," Yang said.

He said the biggest challenge now faced by Chinese women is the rising unemployment rate among graduates.

"After 30 years of economic reform, Chinese women still don’t have basic rights as human beings," Yang said.

According to the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin (CLB), harsh working and living conditions for migrant workers in coastal cities have put pregnant women at a higher risk.

In the southern province of Guangdong, mortality rates among pregnant migrant workers is 40 per 100,000 persons, compared with only 20 in the general population.

The average mortality rate of pregnant women in developed countries is about 10 per 100,000, and just two in Sweden and six in Canada, the CLB said.

Call for government action

And according to the New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC), women in China have failed to achieve economic or social gains at the same level or pace as men; and rural, migrant, and ethnic minority women and girls are doubly vulnerable.

Up to 70 percent of rural residents without land are women, while the adult illiteracy rate for women is 2.7 times that of men, HRIC said in a recent report.

A Beijing-based worker in her 20s called on the government to take better care of women workers.

"I think that women face more challenges than men in competition for white-collar jobs because they shoulder the burden of family and children more," she said.

"I wish that the government or employers would take better care of women. For example, by reimbursing more medical expenses during pregnancy and childbirth, so as to not place too much of a burden on the family budget," she added.

A retired rocket scientist in Beijing surnamed Zhang said ideally there should be no need for positive discrimination in the workplace.

"I believe that if you promote the equality of one gender over the other, they will never be truly equal," Zhang said. "True equality consists of absolutely no policies to protect either gender."

Career and family

But she added: "Right now, such policies may be needed, as Chinese women traditionally were, and most of them still are, in a disadvantaged or vulnerable position."

Fear of losing jobs, when found, is also a recurring theme, as factories close up amid the global economic crisis, sending millions of migrant workers back to their hometowns in the less prosperous western areas of the country.

A single woman from Tianjin in her 20s said that more and more Chinese women who have jobs are focusing on their professional development above all else.

"I am pretty career-oriented ... I think if I had to choose between my career and marriage, I would probably choose my career. Of course, if I could have both, that would be terrific."

Original reporting in Mandarin by An Pei and Han Qing. Mandarin service director: Jennifer Chou. Translated and written for the Web in English by Luisetta Mudie. Edited by Sarah Jackson-Han.

Radio Free Asia: Work Woes Dog China's Women | CLB

 

[grey boy 2]

What are some of the problems facing the women in India?

(1)The Dowry system prevalent in India calls for a large sum of money to be paid to the groom at the time of marriage. Brides that cannot meet the husband's expectations are sometimes harassed after the wedding. (see: Dowry System)

(2)Desire for male progeny has caused natural imbalance and numerous problems for women.

(3)Unwanted touching of women in public places -- this problem is known as Eve teasing in India.

(4)Unequal share of inheritance -- in most Hindu families, only the sons inherit the wealth of the parents as married girls are considered no longer part of the family.

(5)Lack of public toilets --this is more of a hygiene problem of India, but making even more difficult for women to get out of the house.

(6)Ill treatment of widows -- many families blame the untimely death of a husband to the misfortune of the woman. In extreme cases, the widow is made to wear only unattractive clothing and shave her head, although this practice is on the decline.

Kamat's Potpourri: The Women of India - Frequently Asked Questions

 

[grey boy 2]

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[FlickerSingh]

Essay on Child Abuse in China
About 2 pages (445 words)
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Child Abuse in China

Summary: Because of the benefits and punishments made by the government, women who have already given birth are required to stand in front of x-ray machines to verify that their IUD's (birth control devices) are still in place. Those women who bear a child more than one are forcibly encouraged to have abortion. There, moral issues regarding abortions and the right of the unborn fetus arise.

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"Children are the future and the hope of mankind", Dr. Jose Rizal said. They are to be love, to be taken care of, to be supported and guided by their parents. They should experience the freedom and rights that was given to them. Yet, in many countries around the world ignores these rights that are really for the children. Child abuse has been reported and done uncontrollably. But what does child abuse really means? Who experience this kind of treatment?
Child abuse is widely spread all over the world. This two-word is defined as "causing or permitting any harmful or offensive contact on a child's body; and any communication or transaction of any kind which humiliates, shames, or frightens the child." (Kahtri 2002). These abuses were illustrated by issues existing from a communist country, China.
China is known to be a big country with a very large population. According to the "World Factbook", there are 1,306,313,812 people in China last July, 2005. The population growth rate by that year was 0.58%, and the sex ratio by total population is 1.06 male / female. This is actually the reason why One-Child Policy is still being implemented.
One- Child Policy was established by Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit its population growth. This policy is actually designed for "temporary measure" but due to the threat of large population, it continues for a quarter century after its birth. This policy rewarded those who observed it and penalized those who don't.
Couples with only one-child were given a "one-child certificate" which gives them the following benefits: cash bonuses, longer maternity leave, better child care and preferential housing assignments. Couples who had more than one child were punished by a ten percent decrease in their annual wages, and their children would not be eligible for free education and health care benefits.
Because of the benefits and punishments made by the government, women who have already given birth are required to stand in front of x-ray machines to verify that their IUD's (birth control devices) are still in place. Those women who bear a child more than one are forcibly encouraged to have abortion. There, moral issues regarding abortions and the right of the unborn fetus arise.
Aborting of babies' especially female fetus became the solution for very unwanted pregnancy, which led to gender inequalities. Male children were treated as "Little Emperors." They were valued more in Chinese culture because only sons are permitted to carry on traditional Chinese family rituals and ancestor worship. Discrimination against girls, especially in rural areas, is in turn linked to patterns of excess female mortality, caused from less attention paid to their nutrition and health case needs. This is the complete article, containing 445 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page).

chinese women and girls treated like maharanis?
need more masala grey boy ?

 

[grey boy 2]

chinese women and girls treated like maharanis?
need more masala grey boy ?

HaHa, thanks for your useful lead, you really want to talk about

"Child abuses" ? your wish is my command;

An overwhelming number of India’s children face unwanted attention from sexual predators.

After a brilliant 16-year-old New Delhi girl repeatedly complained last month that her mathematics teacher was “touching and fondling her private parts,” the upshot was a long way from what anybody bargained for. When the girl’s parents complained, the principal called them “regressive” and blamed them for damaging the school’s reputation. The girl now stays at home to help cook and clean, her school bag lying in a locked cupboard, her scholastic career over.

The story of the girl, referred to only as Seema, is depressingly familiar, resonating across large parts of India, where abuse is a a startling everyday reality for as many as half of the country’s children, according to a just-released 13-state National Study on Child Sexual Abuse conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, UNICEF and Save The Children.

It is a long-hidden issue that India is finally beginning to wrestle with. The government moved recently to establish a National Commission for Protection of Children's Rights and plans are afoot to present an Offences Against Children (Prevention) Bill in the Parliament. The proposed document has specific sections dealing with various crimes against children, including sale/transfer, sexual assault, sexual/physical/emotional abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, child pornography, grooming for sexual purpose, incest, corporal punishment, bullying and economic exploitation.

The scale of abuse, according to the national study, is far worse than anybody had thought. It reports that 69 per cent of all Indian children are victims of physical, mental or emotional abuse, with New Delhi’s children facing an astounding abuse rate of 83.12 percent.

The survey, which involved interviews with 12,447 children, also highlights that it is usually family members (89 percent) who perpetrate such crimes and that more boys face physical abuse (72.61) than girls (65 per cent). Overall, Indian children were found to be victims of a slew of sexual crimes -- rape, sodomy, exposure to pornographic material, fondling, forcible kissing and sexual advances, among others.

The study also notes that child sexual abuse in India begins as early as five, ratchets up dramatically during pre-pubescence and peaks at 12 to 16 years. Some 21 percent of respondents acknowledged experiencing severe sexual abuse like rape, sodomy, fondling or exposure to pornographic material. Ironically, 71 per cent of sexual assault cases in India go unreported.

Nor is the study an aberration. As long ago as the mid 1990s, Samvada, a non-governmental organization in Karnataka, surveyed girls aged 15 to 21 from 11 schools and reported that 47 percent of the respondents were molested or experienced sexual overtures, 15 percent of them under the age of 10. Another 15 percent said they had experienced serious forms of sexual abuse including rape – 31 percent of that group were under the age of 10 when the abuses took place

India is home to more than 375 million children, comprising nearly 40 percent of the country’s population, the largest number of minors in any country in the world. Despite its ethos of non-violence, tolerance, spirituality and a new trillion-dollar economy, India hosts the world's largest number of sexually abused children, at a far higher rate than any other country. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in every four girls and one in every seven boys in the world are sexually abused, hardly encouraging, but still far below India’s totals.

Worse, child abuse is one of the least documented violations in the country, records author Grace Poore in the book, The Children We Sacrifice, which deals with the wide prevalence of child sexual abuse in India.

The reasons are manifold. In India, much like the rest of Asia, children are expected to respect and obey authority figures such as teachers, guidance counselors and principals and not question their actions. Rebellion is perceived as a sign of a bad upbringing. This sensibility perpetuates a culture of abuse by encouraging sexual predators.

Also, Indian adults often exercise a near-feudal hold over their children, demanding complete and unquestioned obedience. A culture of silence and shame also swirls around cases of sexual violence against children. Unsurprisingly, the notion of shame is the single largest culprit in perpetuating sexual violence against India’s children.

Ironically, despite the magnitude of the problem, Indian courts offer little panacea to victims. In fact the only legal recourse available to such victims is the extensions of “rape laws”, which apply to women and are stretched to apply to children as well.

But, as authorities point out, rape laws only recognize sexual crimes involving “penile penetration” and are totally dependent on medical evidence. Such evidence is difficult to procure as abuse is usually not one isolated case but a whole series of them. It may even involve episodes in which the offender doesn’t even touch the victim. Worse, the sexual molestation law covers all sexual offences “that outrage the victim’s modesty,” other than penetration. However, these two are bailable offences and only demand punishment of a maximum of two years in jail and/or a fine of few thousand rupees.

Though this law can be used in child sexual abuse cases, its reference to “unusual sexual offences” makes it difficult for child victims to use this option as a legal remedy. Since the definition of sexual abuse is nebulous, victims are largely at the mercy of the court’s discretion. On rare cases when abusers are booked after a cumbersome legal procedure, India’s conviction rate is so abysmal (despite the country’s sophisticated and complex set of laws), it seems like a Pyrrhic victory.

Apart from the legal dimension, child sexual abuse also has pronouncedly psychological and emotional elements. Worldwide surveys point out that such abuse negatively impacts a child’s physical, emotional and mental well-being, leading to severe behavioral and psychiatric disorders. Suicidal tendencies and drug abuse are common long-term effects.

A World Health Organization survey also points out that there is an unambiguous behavioral and emotional pattern in the abused. Usually the child hardly talks about the incident. And, even if he or she does, no one takes it seriously. That in turn triggers feelings of self doubt and guilt, exacerbating the child’s feeling that it is his or her fault. As the child matures, compulsive behavior reinforces this guilt. Small wonder that many adult sexual problems, according to psychoanalysts, trace their provenance to childhood abuse.

Charol Shakeshaft, a statistics professor in the School of Education and Allied Human Services at Hofstra University, New York, notes in her report, “Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature,” that “child sexual abusers, including educators and priests, use similar patterns of ‘grooming practices’ to break down a child's defenses. Often popular and well-regarded in their field, abusers engage in ‘systematic and premeditated grooming’ where they lavish special treatment on their intended victim buying presents or sharing secrets, for example and then advance to pornography.”

Where then, does the solution lie? Educating and enlightening kids about such issues, helping them distinguish between “good” and “bad” touch, is a partial answer, authorities say. Children also ought to be made aware of impulsive decisions they may make under pressure from peers, bullies and abusers. Sex education in schools is also productive. The Netherlands, a country where teenage pregnancy rates plummeted from 60 per cent to about 25 per cent through aggressive sex information campaigns in schools, is an example.

However, in India the issue of sexual abuse is still wedged between legal and policy commitments to children on the one hand, and the fallout of globalization on the other. A nationwide furor resulted after the government’s recent decision to introduce sex education in schools. The subject has divided opinion between camps who felt such a step would lead to unnecessary experimentation by curious teenagers and others who believed it would help whittle down cases of sexual abuse by creating widespread awareness.

In the meantime, with child sexual abuse attracting so much scrutiny and public debate, the government has the added impetus to adopt strong and unequivocal measures to contain such crimes. For a country with nearly 40 per cent of its populace comprised of children, such measures are overdue.
Asia Sentinel - Hidden Darkness: Child Sexual Abuse in India

 

[grey boy 2]

India women are forced into prostitution due to poverty, human trafficking, illiteracy, desertion, etc.

ACCORDING TO Human Rights Watch, there are approximately 15 million prostitutes in India. There are more than 100,000 women prostitution in Bombay, Asia’s largest sex industry center. Girl prostitutes in India, held in virtual imprisonment, sexually abused, and raped. Girl prostitutes are primarily located in low-middle income areas and business districts and are known by officials. Brothel keepers regularly recruit young girls. Girl prostitutes are grouped as common prostitutes, singers and dancers, call girls, religious prostitutes or devdasi, and caged brothel prostitutes. Districts bordering Maharashtra and Karnataka, known as the ‘devadasi belt’, have trafficking structures operating at various levels. The women here are in prostitution either because their husbands deserted them, or they are trafficked through coercion and deception. Many are devadasi, dedicated into prostitution for the Goddess Yellamma.

An oft-repeated cause of prostitution is poverty. But poverty is not the only reason. The helplessness of women forces them to sell their bodies. Many girls from villages are trapped for the trade in the pretext of love and elope from home, only to find themselves sold in the city to pimps, who take money from the women as commission. The other causes of prostitution include ill treatment by parents, bad company, family prostitutes, social customs, inability to arrange marriage, lack of sex education, media, prior incest and rape, early marriage and desertion, lack of recreational facilities, ignorance, and acceptance of prostitution. Economic causes include poverty and economic distress. Psychological causes include desire for physical pleasure, greed, and dejection.

Prostitution: A burning issue in India today

 

[below_freezing]

hah, maybe in the far far rural places women are treated badly, but in the east, even in rural villages, girls are treated like princesses from birth.

by now, i'd be willing to bet less than 1% of chinese girls still know anything about domestic chores. men do everything.

 

[Windjammer]

it is all over the world specially south asia just google condition of women in pakistan.

And much worse in some than others !
Since when has Pakistan become part of the topic, ?
Or is this your typical escape route.

 

[FlickerSingh]

now lets see how china treats refugees

North Korea regards them as criminals for leaving. China refuses to recognize them as refugees, sending many back to face interrogation, hard labor and sometimes torture. Others stay on in stateless limbo, sold by brokers to Chinese men in need of fertile women and live-in labor. Bang Mi Sun, a former actress in North Korea, lived the worst of both worlds. After crossing into China in 2002, she was separated from her two children and sold into marriage to three men. She managed to get away from all three. When she ran for the third time, Chinese police arrested her and sent her back to North Korea, where a police beating mangled her left leg. Permanently maimed, she was sent to a labor camp for reeducation.

"I had to live the life of an animal," said Bang, who fled the North for a second time in 2004 and found her way to South Korea. "If I had a chance to meet with President Obama, I would first like to tell him how North Korean women are being sold like livestock in China and, second, to know that North Korean labor camps are hell on earth."

The home-and-abroad abuse of North Korean women who seek sanctuary in China was a story that American TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were sentenced Monday to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp, were working on when they were detained in the border area. The circumstances of their arrest remain unclear, though a North Korean court convicted them of entering the country illegally.


Mass flight from North Korea dates to the mid-1990s, when hundreds of thousands of North Koreans fled a famine that killed perhaps a million people. But a recent human rights report, based on interviews in China with 77 female defectors, details how their insecurity and statelessness can continue inside China as the price of escaping the North.

Forced marriage, abiding threats of deportation and a life without citizenship have become the norm for most female defectors now living in China, according to "Lives for Sale," which is based on the research of Lee Hae-young, a Seoul-based human rights researcher. Her work was funded and published by the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, a nonprofit group based in Washington.

The report is part of a growing body of social science research conducted inside China that shows that North Korean defectors are mostly women from working-class and farm backgrounds who fled because of hunger and poverty, not political oppression. Recent estimates say that as many as 300,000 North Koreans are living in China, almost all of them without legal status. Eight out of every 10 recent defectors are women, researchers have found.

Lee Hae-young's interviews, conducted between 2004 and 2006, paint a nuanced portrait of how women from the North live inside China. Contrary to some reports that say they are likely to be trafficked into the sex trade, most women are sold to farmers and laborers, she found.

"Chinese men in the three major provinces closest to North Korea are desperate for women, and they are willing to pay for them," Lee said.

"Many of these men are poor, and they fall into debt to buy a wife," she added. "North Korean women usually end up working for years to help pay off the debt."

If the women stayed with their "husbands" as part of their property and bore children, they received abundant food, had secure shelter and were rarely bothered by Chinese police.

 

[AHMED85]

now lets see how china treats refugees

what kind of refugees can you mean Indian

 

[grey boy 2]

Another shameful mistreatment of women in India="Beating"

 

[below_freezing]

now lets see how china treats refugees

Korean women are treated better in china than even in south korea.

no woman ever visits india for fear.

 

[FlickerSingh]

what kind of refugees can you mean Indian

go check the meaning of refugee in the english dictionary pakistani and find out fr yorself

 

[grey boy 2]

Indian woman beaten by Indian animals