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Finally there’s proof that something’s drastically wrong with the global gender picture:
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The Hunger Project has received, for the second year in a row, Charity Navigator’s highest rating: four stars!.... Only 16 percent of charities that Charity Navigator has rated have received at least two consecutive four-star evaluations. Charity Navigator writes: “The Hunger Project outperforms most charities in America in its efforts to operate in the most fiscally responsible way possible. This ‘exceptional’ designation from Charity Navigator differentiates The Hunger Project from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust. Refer THP June 2008 Newsletter. |
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Irrational prejudices, unchallenged traditions, and impenetrable systems designed by males keep one gender free while enslaving the other.
Thus, the unspoken solidarity of the male gender continues to shape the destiny of females.
My mission is to bring awareness and mutual understanding of how gender equality—designed to be complementary—has gone awry, but may be the only remedy for peace among the human family. More about Lynne…
Women's Rights?
Since 1993, it’s been stated that “women’s rights are human rights.” But in Toronto, 2006, thirteen years later, Stephen Henry Lewis, United Nations’ Special Envoy for HIV AIDS in Africa said,
“[Women's rights have] never been made real, and so long as men control the levers and bastions of power... it never will be real. The demeaning diminution of women is everywhere evident... freedom from sexual violence, the right to sexual autonomy, to sexual and reproductive health, social and economic independence, and even the whiff of gender equality are barely approximated. It's a ghastly, deadly business, this untrammeled oppression of women in so many countries on the planet.”
Address by Stephen Henry Lewis to The Sixteenth (XVI) International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, August, 2006, presented here. |
