Multiple Perspectives and Persepolis
Women's rights are being violated when they are forced into prostitution, like women having no rights in Persepolis when the women are not aloud to wear what they want or speak what they want. Sexual trafficking in Russia is a major problem, but if the women speak up about what they don't want to do they get beat or even killed. In Persepolis the women are looked at as inferior and if they speak up they will get beat or even killed. Women are subjected to worse punishments than men even for the same crime. In human trafficking it is the same way because women are looked upon as lessors or not equal to men. Then if they are able to escape from their captors and are able to return to their homes they are looked upon as filth, trash, and whores because of something that they were forced to do and if they fought back would be beaten or killed. The state, in turn, gives only minimal attention to issues of equality of sexes. According to the Moscow Helsinki Group, the majority of representatives of authorities does not consider the prohibition of discrimination as a basic principle of their work. Instead, most legislators, at both the federal and regional levels, view protection of women only as “social protection of motherhood and reproductive rights rather than the advancement of women and provision of equal opportunities” (Savenko). Because of this if a women is abducted the police won't do as much vs. if a man was abducted.
Works cited
Savenko, Yanina. "Do Women Have Equal Rights with Men in Russia?" N.p., 6 Mar. 2007. Web. 2 June 2014. <http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/7821.html>.
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