Women's Rights

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Women's Rights

• By Katherine A. Skinner
• US Foreign Policy
• The Metropolitan Learning Center
• Bloomfield, CT, USA
• PPH1

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Thesis Statement

• The United States foreign policy should be to put
  more funding toward the United Nations, so that
  the United Nations can help improve women's
  rights in developing countries.

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The Role of Women in Uzbekistan

• Women in Uzbekistan are very beautiful. They
  have identical pay as men. The women in
  Uzbekistan work and educate the children. They
  are wearing modern clothes. Women have almost
  all the rights that men have.

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The role of women in Bukhara

• According to the Constitution ofour Republic,
  Article 46 guarantees Women and men shall have
  equal rights.What is in reality? All the women
  and men in our country get the same salary if
  they do the same job.There is no separation
  between them on this matter.

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Questions

• What health problems do women have in your
  country and has America done anything to help
  with these problems?
• Do you think America should be giving your
  country help with these problems?

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Responses from Ukraine

•    I am not sure but it seems to me, women
  throughout the world have almost the same health
  problems. Very often they are connected with hard
  work, bad living conditions, or bad habits, like
  using drugs and alcohol, starvation, bad
  environment, abortions and so on.

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Responses from Ukraine

• In my country much attention is paid to the
  problem of health protection of women, mothers
  and children, but there are a lot of things that
  need to be improved.

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Responses from Ukraine

• In 1986 there was an accident at the Chernobyl
  nuclear power station not far from Kyiv,
  Ukrainians capital. Since then the government,
  Ministry of Heath Care, scientists and public
  organizations have been taking measures to
  prevent illnesses caused by radiation and to find
  out ways for curing these effects of the
  radiation. They work in collaboration with
  scientists and medical laboratories all over the
  world and American scientists as well.

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Responses from Ukraine

• In Ukraine we have a category of people who are
  called suffered in the Chernobyl accident these
  are former power station workers, and residents
  of the town where the nuclear station is
  situated, and children born in the effected area,
  etc. They get some payment from the state and
  free medical treatment. But in Ukraine we dont
  have enough facilities for proper treatment.

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Responses from Ukraine

• Each year there are many groups of children from
  the so called Chernobyl zone that go to Cuba and
  Italy to get the treatment and rehabilitation
  they need. I think the USA could have taken some
  measures to help these people too.

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Responses from Ukraine

• Though the US government sent money to shut down
  the station in Chernobyl. It wasnt enough to
  stop the process of nuclear emission. I also
  know that after the Ukraine proclaimed its
  independence in 1991, some medical equipment was
  sent to maternity homes and Mother - Child
  Centers from the USA, France and Germany.

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Responses from Ukraine

• Last year a four year old girl Anastasia Ovchar,
  from a village near Kharkiv, was badly burnt
  while she was trying to save her baby sister in
  the fire. She was lucky to be invited to the USA
  with her mom and was cured there. Some American
  charity organizations paid for the treatment.

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Responses from Ukraine

• I believe that countries are like people- if you
  want to help somebody and you are able to do it,
  do your best without hesitation or thoughts about
  the reward.

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The Role of Women in Brazil

• In Brazil even though its in the law that women
  have the same rights of men in reality it's not
  true. We say that because there are some
  differences between them for example in jobs.
  Some women that do the same job of men receive
  less money than men.

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Women in Saudi Arabia

• Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
• Although Saudi Arabia signed the UN Covenant for
  the elimination of all forms of discrimination
  against women (CEDAW) in September 2001, women
  live as third class citizens here.

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Quick Facts On Women's Health

• Almost 530,000 women each year die from
  complications of pregnancy and child birth.
• HIV and AIDS are the leading cause if death and
  illness in women ages 15 to 44.
• In Africa there are as many as three young women
  with HIV for each young man with the virus.

• Millions if women still have no right to live in
  safety, to think and express themselves freely
  and without fear, and to participate in the
  public life in their own countries

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Solution

• A solution can not happen if there is no support
  for it to be changed. A large part of the
  problems with women's health are deaths of the
  mothers as well as the children. This is caused
  by unwanted births. The women in developing
  countries might try to get an abortion but they
  are not safe because the money funded from the
  United States to the United Nations is not
  allowed to be used to make abortions safer.

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QUOTE

• Its the 142 developing countries, including
  Afghanistan, which the White House purposes to
  care about so much, who are going to suffer.

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Bibliography

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