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Speak out against women abuse

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Speak out against women abuse

by Abdullah Saeed

The Star-May 12, 2009 Edition 1

I refer to the article "Abuse of Muslim gets worse", (Star, May 04).
Violence against women is a human rights violation and is a behaviour that knows no culture, religion, race, tradition, social status or country. It is one of the biggest scourges in our communities and there can be no justification for it.
Blaming acts of domestic violence on religion and other factors serves only to conceal and distract us from the truth – domestic violence is a reality in every community and we have not yet dedicated the necessary resources to challenge and change this.
According to statistics, one out of every three women in the world has been a victim of violence in her lifetime, violence against women is one of the four major causes of death on the planet today and 30 percent of women are being physically injured by their partners.
We need to break the culture of silence and motivate victims to speak out against violence.

Pietermaritzburg

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Three held for vigilantism in durban

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Three alleged vigilantes were arrested in Durban today after three people were stoned to death and their bodies dumped in an informal settlement.
  
Captain Khephu Ndlovu says the trio, arrested in Umlazi last night, would face charges of kidnapping and murder.

The three bodies were found in the Q Section settlement last weekend.

All three had been assaulted and stoned to death. Police say more arrests were imminent. The three, aged between 29 and 48, were expected to appear in court on Friday.

MRN-SAPA

 

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Meeting lavarov and mashal

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A meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hamas political Leader Khaled Mashal in Damascus has irked Israeli officials. Senior officials in the Foreign Ministry were furious on Sunday over the news that Lavrov had held talks with Mashaal, saying that he felt maintaining contact with Hamas was ‘needed’. Israeli Foreign Ministry officials were mulling over a possible response to Russia’s move which came ahead of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s visit to Moscow scheduled for next week, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. The daily added that Tel Aviv might file an official complaint against Lavrov’s meeting. The Russian foreign minister, however, defended his move saying that Moscow believes it needs to keep its contact with Hamas. The meeting was held when Lavrov was on a brief visit to Syria to attend a session held by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). (Reference for text: Press TV. Photo: via mosnewes.com)

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