women's issue

(A woman played with her child in her room in a shelter for abused women in Lagos, Nigeria)


Entrenched Epidemic: Wife-Beatings in Africa
........LAGOS, Nigeria - It was a typical husband-wife argument. She wanted to visit her parents. He wanted her to stay home.
So they settled it in what some here say is an all-too-typical fashion, Rosalynn Isimeto-Osibuamhe recalled of the incident in December 2001. Her husband, Emmanuel, followed her out the door. Then he beat her unconscious, she says, and left her lying in the street near their apartment....

.....Ms. Isimeto-Osibuamhe, then 31 and in the fifth year of her marriage, had broken an unwritten rule in this part of the world: she had defied her husband. Surveys throughout sub-Saharan Africa show that many men - and women, too - consider such disobedience ample justification for a beating..........

in THAT part of the world? it's not like africa is the ONLY place this is happening. check next door to YOU. you may just be in for a surprise. WE as women (and men) should never remain silent. DO NOT go gentle............... you have a voice USE IT. STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN