http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/ the blog of the international rescue committee Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2344 THERESA SISKIND Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:27:22 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2344 This isn't a "glass ceiling issue"! This is about fundamental human rights...! I see no difference with these women and the women under Taliban rule in Afganistan. The picture of the woman feeding her child AND pounding the maize at the SAME time, speaks volumes... This isn’t a “glass ceiling issue”! This is about fundamental human rights…! I see no difference with these women and the women under Taliban rule in Afganistan. The picture of the woman feeding her child AND pounding the maize at the SAME time, speaks volumes…

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2343 Tom Vitale Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:13:34 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2343 Since the mid 1800's when women began fighting for the right to vote, the world has been changing. It is slow, but bit by bit women, and men who listen to the women, are making the world more humane. It is hard to see, sometimes, but it is happening in every culture in the world. Since the mid 1800’s when women began fighting for the right to vote, the world has been changing. It is slow, but bit by bit women, and men who listen to the women, are making the world more humane. It is hard to see, sometimes, but it is happening in every culture in the world.

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2342 Sonia Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:06:23 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2342 I am amazed at what these women have accomplished. To take such a stand under their circumstances is beyond courageous. I pray to God their voices continue to be heard and real change can be achieved. Bless all who worked on this project. I am amazed at what these women have accomplished. To take such a stand under their circumstances is beyond courageous. I pray to God their voices continue to be heard and real change can be achieved. Bless all who worked on this project.

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2341 Barb Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:44:07 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2341 i look forward to reading each epiosde although they make me nervous for the people after the photograper an correspondent leave. from woin ith refugees, i know that the women an the one good husband could be ridiculed or even killed. thanks for bringing us these stories. i hope that readers will see how much there is to do to alter customs . . . . not that everyone needs to be like us. i look forward to reading each epiosde although they make me nervous for the people after the photograper an correspondent leave. from woin ith refugees, i know that the women an the one good husband could be ridiculed or even killed.
thanks for bringing us these stories. i hope that readers will see how much there is to do to alter customs . . . . not that everyone needs to be like us.

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2340 Beverley Taylor Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:52:46 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2340 I applaud Ann Jones, the IRC, and all these courageous women who are willing to stand up in unity. Cruelty, slavery, discrimination,any form of abuse--physical, mental, emotional--against one human being is abuse against all mankind. Until we begin to understand this, we cannot begin to "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself". Change on this level is huge, but this group has taken an enormous step that the world should know about. I applaud Ann Jones, the IRC, and all these courageous women who are willing to stand up in unity. Cruelty, slavery, discrimination,any form of abuse–physical, mental, emotional–against one human being is abuse against all mankind. Until we begin to understand this, we cannot begin to “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself”. Change on this level is huge, but this group has taken an enormous step that the world should know about.

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2339 Dominique Le Bouteiller Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:37:41 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2339 The pictures are heart breaking, once more. Back in 1995, at the Women's Right Conference in Beijing, China, endless groups of women from almost everywhere in the world told the very same sad story... And I can vividly remember a group of men from northern europe, Norway I believe, explaining how hard it had been for them to understand their own violence and how difficult it had been for them to put an end to it... It could very well be one possible solution today: having men talk to men. Men like Veronica's husband have to exist somewhere, even in Cote d'Ivoire... Could it be that the time is now ripe for such changes? Men against violence against women... Let's dream!... The pictures are heart breaking, once more. Back in 1995, at the Women’s Right Conference in Beijing, China, endless groups of women from almost everywhere in the world told the very same sad story… And I can vividly remember a group of men from northern europe, Norway I believe, explaining how hard it had been for them to understand their own violence and how difficult it had been for them to put an end to it… It could very well be one possible solution today: having men talk to men. Men like Veronica’s husband have to exist somewhere, even in Cote d’Ivoire… Could it be that the time is now ripe for such changes? Men against violence against women… Let’s dream!…

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2338 Beverly Hollingsworth Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:10:30 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2338 It gives my heart great joy to see these women unite and stand strong together. United we stand divided we fall! Yea WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!! You are Goddesses! It gives my heart great joy to see these women unite and stand strong together. United we stand divided we fall!
Yea WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!! You are Goddesses!

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2337 Melanie Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:35:03 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2337 It is hard for these men to change the way they were raised - basically as slave owners, owning their wives. The women themselves took the photos about their lives as they are. To "pretty" them up so that the men don't feel so bad would be a disservice to the women suffering under these circumstances and would effect no change. This project is not feminist, it is humanist. That is, it expects each person of either gender to have the same rights and responsibilities as everyone else. One wonders how the men can be happy when their wives are slaves to them. It is hard for these men to change the way they were raised - basically as slave owners, owning their wives. The women themselves took the photos about their lives as they are. To “pretty” them up so that the men don’t feel so bad would be a disservice to the women suffering under these circumstances and would effect no change. This project is not feminist, it is humanist. That is, it expects each person of either gender to have the same rights and responsibilities as everyone else. One wonders how the men can be happy when their wives are slaves to them.

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2336 GG Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:27:57 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2336 I am saddened that a lack of respect and criticism for new beginnings must be amidst us but these women are strong. Survivors are always stronger than they appear. :) These women will be able to find resolutions to their problems by working and learning together. Bon chance! :) I am saddened that a lack of respect and criticism for new beginnings must be amidst us but these women are strong. Survivors are always stronger than they appear. These women will be able to find resolutions to their problems by working and learning together. Bon chance!

]]> http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2335 Women in war zones document their own lives with digital cameras « Have a Good Life Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:25:33 +0000 http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/#comment-2335 [...] http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/ [...] [...] http://blog.theirc.org/2007/12/08/16-days-day-14-showtime-at-koupelatenkodoko-%e2%80%93-or-husbands/ [...]

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