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Women Wearing Trousers Stripped in Uganda
In Uganda, 20 Trouser-wearing Women Stripped by Male Rioters
It was never my intention to become so involved in the topic of international women’s rights.
Admittedly, I am concerned not so much for my own rights, but for our daughters and granddaughters — in every country of the world.
If my instincts are good — and clients say they are — then my attraction to this issue is unfortunately my understanding that critical new assaults on women are not only possible, but probably escalating.
Women are fodder for men at war; again serving multiple husbands as societies respond to the adult realities of gendercide in India and elsewhere; and the symbol of all that is “wrong” with global modernization, in the eyes of many men.
If men lose control of “their” women, what do they have left?
I’m deeply concerned about the fury bubbling below the surface of global development and how it will make an already deadly reality for the world’s women even worse.
Let us pray that the incident in Uganda is only a confined incident. I fear that I am wrong. Anne
