Women in Developing World

(From a Press Release)

Tomorrow, March 8, 2007 is International Women's Day. In preparation for this event Ann Veneman addressed the 51st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women:

“Despite progress, we continue to live in a world where millions of girls remain out of school, engaged in exploitative labor, are trafficked, are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and are targets of sexual violence,” Veneman said in advance of International Women’s Day on 8 March.

Doesn't this sound like something out of nineteenth century? For the developing world it is still the nineteenth century. These young women are being denied the education needed to protect themselves against life threating situations. More education is needed for everyone in the world about situations like these. Its too bad America is busy spending money on bigger bombs and having too much fun going into debt to worry about this.

“It is long past time that countries, cultures and communities everywhere accept that it is in their own best interests to treat girls and women as equals,” Veneman said. “Common sense and economics alike tell us that a society cannot possibly marginalize half its population and expect positive outcomes.”