e of sexual exploitation, the right to health care and nutrition, the right to an acceptable standard of living, the right to chose her own partner, the right to vote, the right to control property, and the right to equal treatment before the law along with freedom of speech. Women in Third World countries do not have the rights that Canadian women enjoy. In most of these countries, women do not even have rights equivalent to those of Canadian women in the nineteenth century. For example, the women have arranged marriages, have very limited access to education and are abused by their arranged husbands. In these countries, women work twice as many hours as men for one-tenth of the income. The inequities vary from country to country, but one thing is in common; the inequalities are all being committed against women. More specifically are countries such as Afghanistan, China, Iran and Mexico that contribute to the problematic female desecration. After the dissolution of Islam and solidification of Taliban control in Afghanistan the situation for women has become increasingly unpleasant. "They shot my father right in front of me. He was a shopkeeper. It was nine o'clock at night. They came to our house and told him they had orders to kill him because he allowed me to go to school. The Mujahideen had already stopped me from going to school, but that was not enough. They then came and killed my father. I cannot describe what they did to me after killing my father." (15-year-old girl, p. 10) This is the story of a 15-year-old girl who was repeatedly raped in her house by armed guards after they had killed her father for allowing her to go to school. Afghanistan's women do not have many rights at all. All women in Afghanistan are totally deprived of the right to education. Afghanistan has closed down all schools for girls and has decreed that they are also not allowed to work. They have been ordered to remain in their houses, and employers...
