Globally, women are falling victim to violence, death and evaporation into nothingness at an alarming rate. Just this week the gang rape over several days of hundreds of women and young girls in the Congo right under the nose of UN peacekeepers has been reported. [saharareporters.com]
The most difficult to deal with are the thousands of women globally who simply disappear each year. They are generally women who have gone to the big cities in search of jobs and who have been abducted into sex slavery, etc.
August 30th is the Day of the Displaced. This year in Canada, native women came forth demanding an investigation into the fate of “the disappeared.” Please read this remarkable account of the problem and of one native woman’s assessment of the cause: “colonialism.” And remember the chilling comment of one: “Do you really brush something off because it is not open war?” This is the most outrageously under reported story each year.
http://english.aljazeera.net/quoteofday/2010/08/201083018253280225.html
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roxannadanna
August 31, 2010
What a sad story, especially for the families. And what injustice.
Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Roxanne
samhenry
August 31, 2010
Thank you my friend. I could not believe what I was reading. If you add it up every year, the loss is as staggering as in a major war. Haven’t visited sites around and about because of back/hip difficulties. Can’t sit/stand long periods. See surgeon this Friday. I keep singing these sad songs, LOL.
DarcsFalcon
September 1, 2010
Women suffer. Women and children. We need to take care of our own. Groups like NOW would be wise to do more for such as these, rather than get into all the liberal political stuff they do.
samhenry
September 1, 2010
absolutely. And to quietly go about helping rather than using it and advertising it is the way to go. It lends dignity to those helped.