In many
countries school is not free and parents who have limited resources choose to
invest in their sons’ education instead of their daughters´. One would be able
to understand that something like this would have been accepted as an ordinary
thing in our society 50 years ago or even earlier than that, but it is quite
unreasonable to think that nowadays a person should have fewer rights for the
fact that you are a woman.
A few weeks
ago, Malala Yousafzai, a fourteen year
old Pakistani girl, was shot by the Talibans. Dangerously injured, was rapidly
taken to a hospital where she eventually was operated on to remove the bullet of her head. This
girl, who had never given up her education , decided to attend school
regardless of the fact that girls over an age are not allowed to do so. She was
very determined and wrote about the value of educating girls. Some people were
not ready to accept such a brave action and decided she deserved some kind of
punishment and shot her.
No one
would dispute the fact that it is totally unacceptable to deprive anyone of
their human rights, and clearly this has been the case of Malala. In my opinion,
what we should do is support and encourage these strong people who struggle to be
heard and to be an equal part in a man dominating society. I strongly share her point of view and I would probably do the same in her case
although I am not in her situation as we live in different cultures and she does
not have all the opportunities that fortunately we are able to enjoy ourselves.
In
conclusion, I would like to express my strong
support to human rights, more
precisely, women’s rights. It is not fair to accept sexism in the 21th century.