During our Women's Seder last week we wanted to put into perspective the travails that women in our world still go through on a daily basis. This is a partial list, with suggested (if not endorsed) organizations to look into learning more or donating. Action is important; if you feel called to action I encourage you to follow it.
Ten Modern Plagues
representing the travails women around the world still face
today…
Malala Yousafzai – the 14 year old young woman Afghani
student shot by the Taliban for trying to get an education.
To
learn more or donate: United Nations Girls Education Initiative
www.ungei.org/
Jyoti Singh Pandey – Indian woman fatally gang raped on a
bus in Delhi.
To
learn more or donate: Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network - www.rainn.org/
Dawn
Hochsprung, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau, Mary Sherlock and Victoria
Soto – the adults who lost their lives defending students in the Newtown
massacre.
Shannon Lowrey and Lee Ann Nichols – killed in 1994 at the
Brookline Massachusetts Planned Parenthood reproductive health clinic.
Russian feminist punk-rock band, Pussy Riot, imprisoned
indefinitely for staging a protest concert.
Anat Hoffman of Women of the Wall, repeatedly imprisoned
for championing women’s right to pray at the Western Wall.
Young girls the world over being subjected to Female
Genital Mutilation.
Representative Gabby Giffords, recovering from a brain
injury caused by a gunman “protesting” her politics.
Kasandra Perkins fatally shot by her boyfriend, NFL player
Jovan Belcher, and Reeva Steenkamp, fatally
shot by her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius.
To
donate locally: Suffolk Coallition Against Domestic Violence - www.sccadv.org/
And ALL who have suffered and died in advancing the cause of
women’s rights throughout the world.
