Women Rights Keun Hee (Kylie) Youk The Asia Institute Internships Member Korea International School Everyone should be allowed to understand their human rights that were supposed to be specifically addressed by their country. The majority of the developing countries, however, turn out to have limited or at all any knowledge of what rights they have. If the women in Zambia were asked, for instance, to list their basic legal rights, they would not be able to list even five, said Chisenga Muyoya, co-founder of Asikana Network, a women’s rights nonprofit organization. But gratefully, women in Zambia will finally be enabled to gain access to such necessities through Facebook and internet.org’s new app that gives them unlimited Internet connection for searching women’s rights resources such Mobile Alliance For Maternal Action, Women’s Rights App, and even Facts For Life by UNICEF. In addition to these sources, people there will now even have ingress to Internet services such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Google, as well as local information of jobs, government, and the weather. The Zambian government, fortunately, have been supportive of the project, but in the process of promoting this new proposal, Internet.org could face conflict in other parts of Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, where gender discrimination is deeply ingrained. I definitely agree with the quote, “Women’s access to technology – and their ability to use it to shape and drive change in their communities – is critical to gender equality. This technology will give voice to millions of people, including women, in Zambia, Africa and the whole world, and empower them to share ideas, drive innovation, and build more inclusive and democratic societies”, by Musimbi Kanyoro, the Global Fund for Women’s President. This project that Facebook and internet.org are advocating is for such a necessary, fundamental cause to let all the people in the world realize the human rights for women. For the past decades, or perhaps centuries, women’s status has always been situated and viewed from a lower position then that of men’s. Although gender inequality has progressively been decimating throughout the world, most developing countries are still at state of senselessness, not promoting or simply violating women’s rights. As so many cooperations are now finally taking action to show, change the perception of women to the rest of the world, mostly oblivious to such basic rights, I believe there is finally hope for all women to realize that they stand in equal status of men, with definite rights that should never be discriminated against. ! For Facebook, access to women’s rights information is a basic one. Fortune For Facebook access to womens rights information is a basicone Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Aug. 2014. .
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 03:58:39 +0000
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