Human Rights of Women: Theory v/s reality
Ours is a deeply perplexing age in relation to rights, on the one hand there is a virtual explosion of human rights enunciations and on the other hand there is a growing disregard of rights and cynicism about over future. The proliferation of human rights instruments seems to have caused critics of human rights to form a right weariness and a right wariness. Thus we are in a situation where there is a notable increase in affirmations as well as violations of human rights, wherein all struggles articulate themselves in the language of human rights and invoke the 'Politics of rights" making human rights into bargaining points for the enhancement of power. Human rights of children and those of a girl child have also become victims of this power game. The only viable long lasting way to protect human rights of children is through educating them and that too with a big emphasis on the education of girl child which should supersede education of male child as a girl educated is a family educated, a family educated is a society educated, a society educated is a nation educated and if all nations are thus educated then in the whole wide world no one will remain uneducated.
Education enlightens and an enlightened woman only can stand up for protection of her human rights and for those of her fellow sisters who may be being deprived and discriminated against due to various religious and socio-economic factors. By educating girl child we set in a process of empowering women, who will be able not only to defend their rights and live with dignity but also to contribute to the development of entire society.
Here the questions arise as to why a girl child is discriminated against and deprived? The root cause of this practice lies in various socio-cultural, economic and religious factors, which make us ignore the rights of girl child and our duty towards them with open eyes.
Ours is a deeply perplexing age in relation to rights, on the one hand there is a virtual explosion of human rights enunciations and on the other hand there is a growing disregard of rights and cynicism about over future. The proliferation of human rights instruments seems to have caused critics of human rights to form a right weariness and a right wariness. Thus we are in a situation where there is a notable increase in affirmations as well as violations of human rights, wherein all struggles articulate themselves in the language of human rights and invoke the 'Politics of rights" making human rights into bargaining points for the enhancement of power. Human rights of children and those of a girl child have also become victims of this power game. The only viable long lasting way to protect human rights of children is through educating them and that too with a big emphasis on the education of girl child which should supersede education of male child as a girl educated is a family educated, a family educated is a society educated, a society educated is a nation educated and if all nations are thus educated then in the whole wide world no one will remain uneducated.
Education enlightens and an enlightened woman only can stand up for protection of her human rights and for those of her fellow sisters who may be being deprived and discriminated against due to various religious and socio-economic factors. By educating girl child we set in a process of empowering women, who will be able not only to defend their rights and live with dignity but also to contribute to the development of entire society.
Here the questions arise as to why a girl child is discriminated against and deprived? The root cause of this practice lies in various socio-cultural, economic and religious factors, which make us ignore the rights of girl child and our duty towards them with open eyes.
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