This is not Violence, is "Culture" ...

Currently in many countries people still fighting against male chauvinism; that women can do the same job as a man, that they have the same capabilities, but in Middle Eastern countries have a worse struggle, where women are cruelly battered and they have no right to give him away. A clear example is Pakistan; which is the third most dangerous country in which a woman could live.
Even if we don`t want to believe it, in Pakistan there are laws that favor men and put women in a position of guilt when they are the real victims.

If a man throws acid or hot oil in the face of his wife, he can go to the police and say that she had a domestic accident. Even the Constitution of the country stated that if a man found his wife having sex with another man, he could kill them both and still would not go to jail; this is called Honor Killing or Karo Kari. Even for men to remain cleared of any charges, a lot of women are not valued as citizens, so before the law she doesn`t exist because she doesn`t appear in the records.

 

 

Even Pakistani culture has been badly influenced by some religions, like the Mullahs and Taliban tribes, where they marry their daughters at an early age to men considerably older and they also are use as currency to pay off a debt.

At what level of superiority can get men of these cultures, how can women be seen as an object, like garbage and not as a human being, these poor women have no voice or vote, they have no right to anything, many of them die when the real criminals are free, and although many people stand to fight these "laws", their thinking will continue in the same way.
I feel very sorry and anger at being unable to do anything for women living in a society like this, where male chauvinism exceeds limits.
Always some government spokesmen in different countries tell us that the world is changing, that societies are better, but if a part of the world is showing us otherwise, then, what kind of progress are we talking about?

 

We need more respect

In Islamic culture governed by conservative customs where the man is in charge and the rich have the most power, the rights of women for decades have gone on to lead. While the Qur'an itself says that everyone (men and women) are equal in the eyes of God, also mentions that the man has the right to caution or hit the woman because her disobedience.
It is no secret that there are social differences between women and men within Islam, but I think it is still shocking to learn certain customs, such women can not go shopping without a man and and they must walk behind him and completely covered wearing her burka, to accuse a man of adultery should be testified by four man and witnesses who have seen it should be honest man.

Today we can realize in the  news  about mistreatment of women being accused  of unfaithfulness or read news that surprised me was about 3 women who were murdered by their own relative with the motive of "they were disgracing the family" but in the  video that  they filmed in that  moment, the women were playing and laughing out of the house during the rain.
As a woman in a country that, although there are still differences between men and women labor, to read news about this violence I feel blessed to live in Chile and the situation is not the same here, but it is sad to see how women in other cultures are not treated with respect or they don't give them the opportunity to emerge as they wanted, to be inserted either in male cultures or obliged to marry without their consent with the excuse is for the welfare of the family, which has brought other Problem ... that problem is the child marriage, where young girls aren't unaware about what the marriage is and the girls  generally marry with  men older than them, and the women are obliged to follow what a wife should do and what  the man decides for them.
While Muslim women gradually been given a place in society there still remains that their rights are passed to carry.

My Life, My Right, End Child Marriage 

South Africa: The Rainbow Nation

Nowadays South Africa is known in many places of the world as the rainbow nation. This term was coined by Archbishop Desmon Tutu (a social rights activist of South Africa and a retired Anglican bishop) to describe post-apartheid, after South africa's first fully democratic election in 1994. After that Nelson Mandela elaborated this phrase: "Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world". 

Desmond Mpilo Tutu

Basicaly the meaning of the rainbow symbolize the unity of multi-cultulralism and the coming-together of people of many different nations and races, in a country once identified with the strict division of white and black people. But, in this way, what is the importance and the meaning of this metaphor for the South African people?

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For many South Africans this term means a positive way to express their own country, specially if we consider that South Africa is a place where certain races were treated poorly and unfairly. 

About the South African indigenous cultures, the rainbow is associated with a bright future and hope (as in Xhosa culture). And the colours simply symbolise the diversity of South Africa's usually unspecified racial, ethnic or cultural groups.

In general we can say that the rainbow's term is a symbol of the cultural diversity in South Africa, as for example, the amount of languages in the country. And to finish I want to show us a short speech of Nelson Mandela about the rainbow nation's expectation.

Nelson Mandela on exceeding expectations to build a rainbow nation