UN urges freedoms for Arab women

– Discrimination against women because of male insecurity must stop in a world where all humans are recognized as equal.  Moreover, overpopulation is driven by problems that begin with women not having education, equal rights and the right of reproductive self-determination. We can no long afford cultures which keep women marginalized as a sop to institutionalized male domination and insecurity. How can we say it any plainer?

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Discrimination against women is holding back economic and social development across the Arab World, a report by the UN’s development agency says.

Arab women must be given greater access to education, employment, health care and public life, the report says.

The Arab Human Development Report is an annual overview compiled by Arab academics and experts in the field.

Islam is not to blame for the problem, the report says, but rather political inflexibility, male domination and war.

Disadvantaged

The BBC’s Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says the Unite Nations Development Programme’s report, entitled Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World, reveals deep-seated discrimination against women across the region.

Maternal mortality rates remain unacceptably high and women suffer more overall ill-health than men.

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