Positive Stories by Positive People
On the occasion of World Aids Day, Breakthrough brings to you some of the most moving and inspiring stories of HIV Positive women; of their courage, spirit of resilience and vulnerabilities, which women of all walks of life will be able to identify with.
An HIV+ woman makes a positive change
Going through death to give birth
Yet a large number of societies and parents continue the practice of early marriage for several reasons including blind faith in culture or religion, hopes of financial and social gains, relieving their own responsibilities towards the child based on her gender and so on. In my view, the continuation of the practice is rooted in social acceptance of slavery of women. Internalization of servility and acceptance of the correctness of the practice is more likely to be successful if women are tamed early, as early as possible. Girl children and young adult women are easy to terrorize and therefore easier to be kept under control and by the time they could be expected to have developed some courage to protest, they are likely to be pregnant and socially isolated as a result of lacks of education and interaction with their peer groups. They are forced to accept their condition as their destiny. Many states and their governments, despite being signatories to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, continue to turn a blind eye to the practice.
The article was first published by the Yemen Times: http://www.yementimes.com/defaultdet.aspx?SUB_ID=22147
