"The Lack of Woman's Human Rights in the Middle East"
             Violations against women in the Middle East have gone on for too long, they have been denied the attention and concern of international organizations, national governments, and the press. For whatever reasons the lack of human rights for women has just been accepted. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of Muslim girls and women continue to endure devastating and often fatal human rights abuses. Yet, more and more people do not want to get involved because they either feel this is a family issue or the Middle East problem. The violation of woman's rights is nor an issue or a problem, it is a tragedy that we must see as all of ours. As a free rights country, we must help to educate the Middle East of their misdoing in order to conserve our own. Human rights violations against women must be documented, publicized and stopped.
             The country of Iran declared that men are legally permitted to kill their wives if they are unfaithful, which leads to woman being killed when their spouses are only suspicious (Goodwin 114). This statement holds true in all Islamic countries. Women are even murdered if they have been raped. As in the case of a disabled sixteen-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia she was shoot dead after she told her family she was raped. Her family decided she should die as she had brought shame to her family (www.amnesty.com). Woman are being confined to the walls of their homes because of fear of the male population assaulting, beating, rapeing, jailing, and torturing them all in the name of Islam.
             In Islamic culture, woman must wear strict hijab attire at all times or else pay the consequences. In Islamic countries woman are getting beaten in streets for not wearing proper dress, simply for exposing their ankles or a strand of hair"(www.amnesty.com). According to former president Rafsanjani, "it is the obligation of the female to cover her h...