women’s status
Census Flap in Ladakh About the Position of Women
A periodic census is supposed to maintain the peace among different groups in a state, to make sure that political realities are periodically balanced with population distributions. But sometimes the results are controversial. The Leh District of Ladakh was stunned a month ago when the preliminary results of the latest national census of India were […]
Zapotec Discrimination Against Women
Newsweek reported this week that poppy farmers in Afghanistan often get so deeply in debt to their opium buyers that they sell them their underage daughters, for $3,000 to $8,000. But people in poor Muslim nations are not the only ones that consider their women and girls to be little more than chattel. A similar […]
