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Women Rights

Good Morning Ladies and Gentleman

Today we are going to discover a most shocking fact. A fact that been hidden for decades. A secret that is claiming lives of innocent women.

Most people sitting here believe that the rights of women have improved over the last few decades. But unfortunately nothing has really changed for women in the Middle East. In fact the opposite has occurred where Women in Middle East suffer on going violations against their fundamental Human Rights and loss of their dignity is heartbreaking.

First of all, Women in the Middle East are treated as second-class citizens if they are lucky. They have no right to vote, no right to acceptable standard of living, and no right to equal treatment before the law.

Secondly, Women in many Middle Eastern countries are proclaimed as properties or possessions that belonged to a male. Women belong to their father as children, and then to their husbands as adults, and then to her sons in their old age. These women hav...

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