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24 de Julio, 2007
How to Punish the Good
Categorized under Acción , Derechos Humanos , Parenting | Tags: derechos de mujeres, putos, Que Viva Las Mujeres
FROM AMIGA BLACKAMAZON:
Human rights defender at risk
Nigerian, Human Rights Defender and founder of The International Centre for reproductive health and Sexual rights (INCRESE) in Niger State, Dorothy Aken’Ova has been ostracised and intimidated by family and community because of the work she does.
Social activists and Frontline HRD like Dorothy are a special group of people who put their lives at risk to defend the rights of others. Dorothy has been defending sexual rights and the reproductive rights of women in Nigeria for over 10 years. [...]
Because of her public stance against the Same Sex Marriage Bill and her work on sexual and reproductive rights, Dorothy’s ex-husband, who lives in Lagos, is now denying her access to their 8 year old son using the courts to further exercise control over her life. Dorothy’s work as a Frontline Human Rights Defender has led her to approach her life and faith from a human rights perspective rather than approaching human rights from a reactionary fundamentalist view that is exclusive and inflexible. For this she is now paying the price of loosing her child, perhaps for ever.
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Comentarios (1)
RC dijo:
Dorothy could not be elected to office in most states or appointed to the US Supreme Court if she emigrated to the US and expressed those ideas here. Just saying! It's not only Nigeria that has a desire to return to the Middle Ages. So many countries are ready to bring on the witch hunts and plague years again.
Palabras por RC spat forth on el 24 de Julio, 2007 at 06:40 PM