Languished Dale Of Subsistence

 

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Introduction

This book  is about a ritual which customize the culture of killing women in the name of respect . I dedicate my content to thousands of women around the world who are victimized , harassed or killed in the name of respect . The ritual is termed as Karo Kari in rural areas of Pakistan , which is so pathetic and ruthless but it may enrich male chauvinism . On the other hand , the crisis of refugee women are extremely vulnerable to sexual assault and exploitation, including rape. Prevention of sexual violence, services for survivors and access to sexual and reproductive health care is critical in crisis situations when vulnerabilities are drastically increased.

Refugee women have the right to live free from the constant threat of violence and exploitation and survivors must have access to services. Reproductive health is essential for them to maintain their dignity and rebuild their lives.

We advocate for measures to protect at risk populations and to ensure survivors’ access to medical care including: emergency contraception, postexposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV infection and psychosocial counseling. This minimum level of care should be available from the earliest stages of a humanitarian crisis.

 

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Huma Kirmani

Ah! I have to work upon this unfinished saga of murderous ritual

Mud-Slinging

 

A shame for society that all literate people disown but cannot deny!

It is a tribal custom in the Sindh and Pakistan. The term karo (for man) or kari (for woman) is used for the person found in adultery or inappropriate sexual relationship as described by local illiterate men. The suspicious man can kill her accusing of being kari whilst seeing or even after hearing a rumour of the girl sitting nearby as man, talking, waling, smiling at, sleeping with another man. Although both sexes are at risk, many men escape death by running away or persuading the woman's relatives to accept cash, land or alternately woman in marriage. Women rarely have any alternatives. Unfortunately women is offered as a sacrifice to undo the wrong doings of a man. The woman that is being handed over (in shape of marriage) is not treated with honour. In some cases she is thought as a horsy whom anyone can satisfy his sexual desire cruelly accusing and reminding her the status in their family.

If the family of victim are ordinary or poor people they can be bribed or forced easily to FORGIVE THE KILLER.  Such practice is very cruel and unfortunately backed by local tribesmen, politicians although they officially deny such reports and issue statements but in reality they do not play their active role to end it. The one good reason is their involvement in the local feslo or jirgo .

According to a recent survey , some 300-400 people were murdered by honour killings in Sindh every year. The victims included about 80% women and 20% men. Human right Activists believe the figures are in fact much higher, since most honour killings go unreported. Sindh is only one of the regions in world where such incidents occur frequently.

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WOMEN AND SLAVERY

  The prevalence of sexual abuse perpetuated by white males against black slaves throughout American history. Southern rape laws embodied race-based double standards. In the antebellum period, black men accused of rape were punished with death. White men could rape or sexually abuse female slaves without fear of punishment. Children, free women, indentured servants, and black men also endured similar treatment from their masters, or even their masters' children or relatives. While free or white women could charge their perpetrators with rape, slave women had no legal recourse. Their bodies technically belonged to their owners by law. The sexual abuse of slaves was partially rooted in a patriarchal Southern culture which treated all women, black and white, as property or chattel.

Beginning in 1662, Southern colonies adopted into law the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, by which children of slave women took the status of their mothers, regardless of the father's identity. This was a departure from English common law as it applied to English subjects, which held that children took their father's status. Some slave owner fathers freed their children, but many did not. The law relieved men of the responsibility of supporting their children, and confined the "secret" of miscegenation to the slave quarters.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , have captured and enslaved women and children, often for sexual use, both groups were reported to have kidnapped large numbers of girls and younger women.

Apparently the first report of slave-taking was on 13 May 2013 when a video was released to manifest that how women and children - including teenage girls. Large numbers of girls and young women  were  kidnapped for sexual use in 2014. The attacks echoed kidnappings of girls and young women for sexual use by Algerian Islamists in the 1990s and early 2000s, and may reflect influence by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

The captured young women and teenage girls have been forced to marry a fighter after another as the fighters are killed. Any time they go for an operation and one of the fighters is killed, they force the young woman to marry another one.  Eventually she becomes a habitual sex slave.

 Persecution of Yazidis by ISIL .Abduction of women; sexual slavery and Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency; ISIS (also called "Islamic State") has taken "as many as 2,000 women and children" captive, selling and distributing them as sexual slaves. Yazidi women and children, and estimated that the overall number could be up to 7,000 , Yazidi are a small minority who practice a religion based on "a mix of Christian, Islamic, and ancient Mesopotamian beliefs".

The inhuman practice goes on like,virgins among the captured women were selected and given to commanders as sexual slaves. The trade in Yazidi women and girls has created a persistent infrastructure, with a network of warehouses where the victims are held, viewing rooms where they are inspected and marketed, and a dedicated fleet of buses used to transport them.

 The captives are non-Muslim minorities, mostly Arab Christians and Yazidis" who have refused to convert to Islam and whose adult male relatives have been executed. Bidders for the captive women and children include,the groups own fighters and wealthy Middle Easterners. Female slavery and war rapes were common during the medieval Arab slave trade, where prisoners of war captured in battle from non-Arab lands often ended up as concubine slaves (who are considered free when their master dies). During the Islamic Golden Age, some Muslim jurists writing on military jurisprudence advocated severe penalties for rebels who use "stealth attacks" and practise abductions, poisoning of water wells, arson, attacks against wayfarers and travellers, assaults under the cover of night and rape.

The great slave markets of Jeddah a continual stream of negro captives has flowed for hundreds of years. The invention of gunpowder and the adoption by the Arabs of firearms facilitated the traffic.Thus the situation in the Sudan for several centuries may be summed up as follows: The dominant race of Arab invaders was increasingly spreading its blood, religion, customs, and language among the black aboriginal population, and at the same time it harried and enslaved them.The warlike Arab tribes fought and brawled among themselves in ceaseless feud and strife. The negroes  trembled in apprehension of capture, or rose locally against their oppressors.

The self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant "justifies its kidnapping of women as sex slaves citing Islamic theology.  Yazidi women can be taken captive and forced to become sex slaves or concubines under Islamic law, one should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar -- the infidels -- and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, or Islamic law.

It not only justified the taking of slave but declared that those who "deny or mock" the verses of the Quran or hadith that justified it were apostates from Islam, asserting that as concubinage is specifically justified in the Quran.

ISIL appealed to apocalyptic beliefs and "claimed justification by a Hadith that they interpret as portraying the revival of slavery as a precursor to the end of the world. 

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SEX SLAVERY IN WORLD WAR II

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Mukhtaran Mai: A story of extraordinary courage

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Love in Meerwala

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A Victim Becomes Triumphant

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A Wild Cry in a Dream

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Aafia Siddiqui- PRISONER 650

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Acid Violence

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The faces of courage Scarred, Survivors of Acid Attacks

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The Custom-Heinous Crime

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Convulsive Gasps

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Gender-Cide

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Women Are Colonized Population

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Honor Killing -Black Black

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Heinous Practice

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A Blob Of Mud

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Illicit Relationship- TorTora

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Social Active Fund

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Determine -a sense of self-worth, respect and dignity

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