Global Gender

Global Gender

Review the World Bank's Gender Statistics page

Do some internet research to locate a nonprofit that works on global gender issues. Read their information, and see if you can find more. Write a blog about what you find. If you focus on one or two countries you can use the Gender Statistics. Write about how women are treated in your country. Are their lives improving in any way? What changes have they brought about? What changes have come from international organizations or nonprofits? 

            The first thing I found on this was that there was a significant problem with a global gender problem. I is important that women in developing countries become more self-reliant to pull them self’s out of poverty. By empowering women it will better the economy of the country of origin. Because if the balance of gender in the labor force will balance out and education can be spread over a larger amount of the population that will average out the country.

My country of origin is American and women have equal rights as men. But when I went to Iraq I saw many examples of women being mistreated and abused and all was social and legal. For a example men are allowed to punish their wife’s as they see fit. Also women have to walk 10 feet behind the male at all times and are not allowed to communicate with anybody out side of the family. Women are treated more like property and slaves then human beings.

Because of modern times many developing countries are banning old laws towrds women such as stoning and none equal rights. Such as in Pakistan, if a woman comets adultery she could be put to death and if the male comments the same crime he suffers fines and sometimes no punishment at all.

Many organizations are developing plans to develop laws that protect women and to develop equal rights. Such as world bank, that is developing a Gender action Plan (GAP).

"Gender." World Bank Group. Web. 17 Dec. 2010. <http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTGENDER/0,,menuPK:336874~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:336868,00.html>.

Child Sex Trade in Southeast Asia

Child Sex Trade in Southeast Asia

Listen/Read: Tracking the Child Sex Trade in Southeast on NPR in MySocLab

BLOG ASSIGNMENT: Do a little online research on the problem of trafficking to add to your knowledge on the issue. There are numerous nonprofits that work to put an end to human trafficking. Post a blog entry about what you have learned. Use any form of trafficking from any country. What social justice changes do you think could help end trafficking?

            I have past experience with human trafficking with a previews government job. What I learned after doing more research on the web was that it has become a greater problem from American girls being trafficked in undeveloped countries. I believe that child trafficking is a major problem not for just Americans but people everywhere forms every social class. Because people can be abducted when visiting other countries that do not have a developed plan to counter the trafficking of people.

            The best way to develop a program that will work is for countries to work together and enforce registration of people. To do this people need to put pressure on the government and to continue supporting nonprofit organizations to put pressure on countries that do not employment proper laws on human registration.

HumanTrafficking.org: A Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking in the East Asia Pacific Region. Web. 17 Dec. 2010. <http://www.humantrafficking.org/>.