Notes from the Virtual Ms B

Sunday, September 5, 2010

CURRENT EVENTS - Women's Rights Elsewhere in the World

In Iran (and other countries), women can be sentenced to death for adultery, political activism, drug use and abuse, homosexuality, among other crimes. Read this article from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/09/05/iran.stoning.pope/index.html?hpt=T2

and this article from Amnesty International: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amnesty-international/story-of-two-women-two-de_b_642696.html

Discuss your feelings regarding these cases AND
find another case involving a woman and a controversial death sentence (any country - Atefah Sahaaleh, Iran; Aileen Wuornos, US; Wang Ziqi and Tao Minggu, China; Mata Hari, etc) to compare/ contrast major themes and issues.

Include the links to articles or videos found/ used for your explanations.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I think that this cruel act was all apart sexism. I dont think that its right to assaninate a women because of adultury. Men make more mistakes than women do but why do we take the hareder fall when we make the same mistakes as men.

goreJESSSSS said...

I think every person has the right to do as they please , if a person wants to smoke drugs , drink alcohol , have sex with people of the same sex & ect. they should be able too . They im pretty sure every person is very aware of what they're doing and the concequences .

acacia said...

I think women and men should have the same rights as any other person in the world. We are all equal and should be treated that way,and if it is a bad choice they should accept the concequences with pride for their choice.

hogan prep class of 2012 said...

i thionk women and men should have the same rights no little or no less everybody should be treated with the same amount of respect