Women's Rights in Asia / Peace Journalism, Issue 33 - Jan, 2007, (Posted on:( 11 Feb 2007
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"Women throughout Asia confront systematic discrimination and abuse, often with little hope of any redress. The risks and types of abuse may intersect with a woman's ethnicity, religion, age, class, sexual orientation, and national origin, but the simple fact that she is a woman often subjects her to an unequal status. Governments have mixed records in protecting women's rights-with some governments, such as Pakistan, routinely flouting their obligations; others, such as Indonesia, failing to back up rhetoric with resources and political will; and still others, such as India, condemning women's rights initiatives to flounder against apathy and incompetence."