Posted by: Saajha December 23, 2004
In Search of RIGHTS
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Thinking about the world of RIGHTS, I often wonder, who in particular seeks for a right...and from who?! Women's right.. to be allowed by men... men/women?? Or be achieved by women from other women/men or just the men? Human rights from HUMANS to humans? Racial rights to the Colors from the rests? Gay-Lesbian rights from the Straights? Handicapped rights from the Ables? Employees' rights, prisoners' rights, animal rights.... many more RIGHTS!!! Do those activists really end up gaining one, or just get satisfied with their efforts with/without a result?Or Is that an indirect approach to exposing the recessive ones as the "Activists" showing their deprived existence? Or is it just an illusion that fills ones head and mind with an impression that he/she (or the representing group) is now BEING HEARD out of the Crowd? Amendments, affirmative actions, Laws of individual/certain group rights, Penalties to hate crimes... all such good stuffs certainly are minimizing the extremities upto an extent, but aren't they really segregating the population into groups? Now, without being Gender- biased, I just want to put forward this question, setting aside all others, since it would be something legitimate for the discussion related to the issue I just raised.... Do we, the Nepalese feel that "Women Rights rallies on the Street" is a good choice to really bring that "awareness" in the societies where their old concepts are deep-rooted, accompanied by the poverty, and the worst.. living under the "Fear of revolutionary expeditions", and bring a drastic or even undrastic change/variation or any sort of development pointing toward their claimed goal(s) to achieve women's rights?
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