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To: Solon who wrote (34616)	3/24/2013 12:47:44 PM
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women unmasks equality's enemies, There might not be many things the Vatican and the Muslim Brotherhood agree on, but one is keeping women 'in their place' guardian.co.uk American pro-life groups also agree that conservative ideology should trump anti-violence work: they've suggested that the CSW agreement should be torpedoed because it has the audacity to say that women have a right to their own bodies. So women in Egypt, the US and around the world are working to secure their own rights, and speaking up to say, "I'm a human being, too." And again, male leaders slap them down. This isn't a "religious problem" or a "cultural problem", even though culture and religion are routinely invoked to justify a hatred of women that crosses over oceans and unites belief systems. This is a misogyny problem. The divide over women's rights fundamentally comes down to the question of whether you think women are equally as human as men, or whether you think we're a sub-category of person, designed to serve men's needs and desires, and unworthy of protection from humanity's most awful impulses. Some 603 million women live in countries where domestic violence remains legal. Three million women and girls are subjected to genital cutting every year, with 10% of them dying from the practice. More than 60 million girls are married as child brides every year.