Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Muslim Women

Ethnocentrism according to The Essence of Anthropology is “a way of viewing other cultures in relation to one’s own in the belief that the familiar sets a universal standard of what is proper or correct”. Throughout Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights the author Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban expresses her thoughts on what anthropologist can do to protect human rights within the cultures they study without considering ethnocentrism, holistic perspectives, and being culture-bound. Overall Fluehr-Lobban does not do a good job at expressing her ideas on how anthropologist can help protect human rights and I found myself not agreeing with her statements.

“Life is full of unhappiness and most of it caused by women (Harik and Marston 11)”. For women in the Middle East life is faced with great and unequal odds, as their human rights are limited, due to Islamic beliefs and that of patriarchy. From their daily actions at home to their physical appearance, Middle Eastern women are portrayed as quiet, faceless women veiled from head to toe. While this image is just another stereotype, women in the middle do face many obstacles and challenges of creating their own identity as they are frequently denied a voice in their rights. Living in a society dominated by men life is not, but regardless women in the Middle East, predominantly Muslims, continue to fight for

The Nation of Islam empowered many blacks in a time and place where the concept of power was used to oppress. Christianity being a white man’s religion in the eyes of the oppressed, Islam was used in America as a tool for confirmation of beauty. The reminder of inner beauty for the people of color caused substantial growth and powerful movement that impacted American history for generations. The same principles that hoped to empower and give freedom towards African Americans is the same principles that continue to mask the beauty of the Muslim woman. How can two oppressed groups of people, blacks and woman, find two very different outcomes when practicing the Islam faith? Recognizing the differences between the Nation of Islam and the other sects of Islam faith, there is still a center focus on self identity and living into that mold. For some, that means taking back what has been taken away from them, freedom. For others, it continues to mean denying inner desires for something greater than following social norms.

This research will demonstrate the concept of Quebec majority versus the ones that are considered "other" or minority, specifically Muslim women. The methodologies and surrounding utilized by the print media along with the specific scope of specific issues created polarization amongst minority and greater part gathers. This research will summon an Orientalist focal point to show how racializing talks are portrayed in a monitored subtext over and the news print to support the protection of Quebec character. The strategy that is utilized is the basic analysis of two newspaper articles that are reflected from Gazette and Lap Presse. This examination aims to identify the importance of the representations of Muslim women in the specific recorded understanding of Quebecois in their particular dialect and culture. This essay will reveal that portion of the media procedures within the Quebec context. This will exhibit that Muslim women are minimized and victimized on the premise of their race, sexual orientation and social character. Revealing that the news print media makes harming depictions of Muslim women. The end goal is to counter these negative depictions. Individuals must be instructed how to think fundamentally about the media and build up the fitting media education ways so that they can comprehend what social value are implied.

unequally in marriage, in court, and in society. Difficulty through marriage for Muslim women can come from age, divorce, and having to be subservient to their husbands. Not only is there difficulty in marriage, but also in the unequal treatment in the islamic justice systems, such as when “evidence given by a female witness counts for half that given by a man” (Dargie 22). Although the societies of major Islamic countries differ, it is clear that women are not represented equally to men in any of them, for example having to dress and act certain ways so as not to attract any attention from men. However, there are Islamic women who are willing to change how their religion views females by speaking out and encouraging others to do the same.

The Journal, “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friends or Foes?, by Oonagh Reitman seeks to address about the similarities between two critiques of international human rights that come from both cultural relativist and feminist. The critique comes from the claim that human rights are universal and both cultural relativist and feminist disagree about the universalism in human rights. The author argue that whether feminist and cultural relativist is friends or foes regarding that both of them are same in criticizing the international human rights but at the same situation they oppose each other in the realm of women’s international human rights. In the section 1 of the paper, it already explained about

Instead of respecting the rights of these women to personal agency and recognizing the historical and cultural context of this practice, these supposed advocates for women’s rights instead rely on cultural stereotypes as justification for their intervention that contribute to the exacerbation of tensions between the local communities and the broader international system. This ethnocentrism, prompted by a sense of First World superiority, ignores the cultural connotations behind this practice, “in which it [is] widely considered desirable to ‘socialize’ female sexuality or fertility through genital operations” (Walley 413-414), an interpretation that runs antithetical to Western perceptions. A similar argument appears in Lila Abu-Lughod’s article “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?,” in which America, citing a crusade of emancipation and equal rights for oppressed Muslim women, continues their intervention in the Middle East for their “War on Terror.” Although Muslim women may feel entitled to certain universal rights and freedoms, they are bound by a political, religious,

People are fighting because they don’t want to be a slave or they want to have woman’s rights. Slaves should be free and women should have rights they should have equal pay than men and men shouldn’t get more opportunities than women, they should be equal they don’t get enough pay than other men they should have more opportunities just like men. Slaves should be set free and not have to work every day and not get a break or get whooped to death or not get to eat or drink anything they have to starve. Women and slaves don’t have the freedom they are compared to different people women get judged or they think that women can’t do it but we prove them wrong.

Two women wrapped in tedious dingy shapeless gowns walked near me. As if the gowns did not obscure enough, they masked their faces with a burqa. They were escorted by their brother, who wore shorts and a t-shirt, looking virtually naked beside them. Unfortunately, this is the raucous reality of millions of women in the middle east. You might be thinking, well some women choose to wear such clothing. But no it doesn 't just stop with the clothing it goes beyond this to issues such as child marriage, being persecuted for just voicing your views and to and death and abuse. Women 's rights in the middle east is an extremely grave and thriving controversy but it’s being buried down because no one seems to really care or do anything about it. I

There is a huge controversy about the hijab in some countries; France, Turkey and Tunisia are the most recognized countries in banning the hijab. France is not like other countries that allow the hijab; it rejects the whole idea of wearing headscarves. France bans Muslim women who wear the hijab from going to schools or even having jobs. In the Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran, women are forced to wear head scarves. Other countries like Turkey and Tunisia ban whoever female works in the education field from covering her head. The hijab is a symbol of being Muslim, and it should it be left to the Muslim women to wear it or not.

If the husband dies, a part of his property is inherited by his wife / women a combination of the laws of Sharia. If the man did not leave children, permanent women share a quarter of movable and the remaining three quarters are shared by the husband of blood relatives (eg, parents, siblings) . If he had children of one of his wives, his wife / women share one eighth of the property and the rest is for her surviving children and blood relatives. Women share a legacy of some of her late husband's personal property, but they do not share anything from real property such as land, real estate, farm or that value. deferred mahr a woman and outstanding debts of the deceased husband paid before any legacy is applied. Sharia mandates that inheritance

It wasn 't until 622 AD that the Islamic religion took its lead. It started with the creator, Prophet Muhammad and his followers fleeing to the town of Yathrib and starting the first Hijra movement. This movement began the popularity of the Islamic faith (Patel). Today the Islamic faith is one of the most practiced religions in the world. The Islamic faith goes back to the town of Mecca, which is considered for them the holiest place in the world. The Kaaba, which is located in Mecca, holds many of the hundreds of god and goddess that they worship (Patel). Many people around the world see their religion through different eyes and assume that what they worship and how they treat their loved ones is strange. Guity Nashat, a professor at

Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights - Friends or Foes? By Oonagh Reitman journal is clearly explicate the idea of how relativism and feminism assessed that human right that we have and used nowadays is no longer relevance. This journal explicate about the difference idea between feminist and cultural relativist towards human right even though both agreed that human rights need to reconstruct and there are several point that human rights is still lacking. However, these two perspective also have several similarities even though sometimes they are still very different in terms of approaches strategies. The fact that feminist and cultural relativist have several similarities lead into the corporate possibilities,

Women in Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia among others face and continue to encounter regular inequities in both law and social norms. A combination of both deeply rooted societal customs and traditional understanding of Islamic law (Sharia) continue to downgrade women to a subsidiary status. In this region, women are not represented in higher positions. They do not participate in political issues and in matters related to private sectors. In other countries, they appear nowhere in the judicial system. What can be said to reinforce this social stigma is the law, which in most of countries of the region reinforces male chauvinism. The husband is declared by this law as the leader of the

          The role of woman, her position and status in society, and her nature have been issues of debate and discussion informed by religion, tradition and culture, misogyny, feminism and - many times - downright ignorance and bigotry.