Important
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About three days ago, I learned about the story of a girl named Jane Doe. Seven men sexually assaulted her for seven full hours, and they sent videos and pictures of what they were doing to a Snapchat group with more than 50 men in it. Not a single one of them even thought about helping her or reporting them. As for the punishment, five of those men were made to write apology letters.
(There are so many girls like Jane Doe, but no one knows anything about them.)
In Iraq, women don’t have custody rights over their children after divorce. I saw a woman saying that her husband sexually abused both of their daughters, and one of the girls became pregnant by her own father.
Two girls wearing niqabs posted a video of themselves riding a scooter. Then a man came along saying, “How can this happen? How can a father buy his daughter a scooter and let her ride it, like she’s riding a horse too?” How did we become like this?
When a woman drives a car, people say she doesn’t know how to drive. When a woman takes public transportation, she faces harassment. When a woman simply walks down the street, she gets unwanted stares, verbal harassment, and physical harassment.
Women in Sudan, Palestine, Despite the war in their country,and rates of harassment and sexual assault have increased during this period.
There is a 15-year-old girl in Tunisia who was sexually assaulted by 11 men.
And there are so many others.
“Freedom for one woman does not mean freedom for all women. The fight only ends when no woman is left having to fight for a basic right.”