The case of the Olympic Games in London 2012 has been helpful to understand how much the acceptance for women’s rights have grown through years. For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games some Muslim women, considered as heroines, participated in this event. When the Olympic Games began, and even in the modern era, there were no female delegates at all. It was back in 1900, during the Olympic Games held in Paris were delegations had female members. Nowadays, we can see the importance of the participation of women in this event that takes place every four years. In London 2012, half of the participants from the delegations of the world were women, including a Saudi and Afghanistan women who were criticized and offended by some Muslim people.
Tahmina Kohistani is one of the women who participated as a delegate of her country for the first time in history. She said: "I faced many challenges in my training for the London Games. One day I was at the stadium and the taxi driver asked me where I was going. I said: 'I'm training, I'm going to the Olympics', and he said: 'salt of the taxi, I will not take you there. "
As it has been demonstrated, women have the same conditions and opportunities as men, and both have equal rights. Therefore, governments around the world should defend women’s rights as a way to help and encourage women’s participation in society. In this Olympic Games, Government supported their female delegates but under the condition that they wear their "hiyab", which means they have to cover their body. Thus, they were not supported by some Muslim people, who think that they shouldn't be representing their countries. These women are heroines simply because they stand for their right as women to take part in world events like the Olympics. They broke a wall by showing that women are capable of everything. Everyone should be proud of them for demonstrating that sports, as well as religion, can be practiced by men and women.
This example is a demonstration of the progress and evolution of human rights all over the world, specifically the rights of women. Several decades have passed since the conception of human rights began to be a concern in the international community as an issue of fundamental importance. The example above is a grain of sand in the development of human rights, hopefully a few years away from now we could be able to tell thousands of examples regarding human rights progress.
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Female role adquires a different definition during the first World Conference on Women which was held in Mexico City (1975). The definition gave is not only, about reproduction but it is also about productivity and community management activities.
ReplyDeleteThis new point of view became into a new approach of making gender policies to strenghten women rights.
For what I express above, I believe women have to fight in order to become her dreams true, no matter what she has to go through and as example of it, we could see Tahmina Kohistani's life.
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ReplyDeleteThe hiyab it's part of musulmans culture, and it's right to used it all the time because it's part of morality. Musulmans woman's have the right to use their hiyab, nobody can say it's bad to use it, and nobody can judge them because of that. we have the obligation of respect other cultures , and we all have the right of being accept and being respect. We can be exclude because of our religion. culture, or skin color. Woman's in Olympic Games use their hiyab in order to respect herself, their culture, and their religion. That's why other woman's consider them us heroines. because this woman's has demonstrate to the world that if you can dream it you can do it, and that it does not matter how hard the challenge is, we can accomplish it, and be the best at it.
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ReplyDeleteCorrection : We cant be exclude because of our religion. culture, or skin color. Woman's in Olympic Games use their hiyab in order to respect herself, their culture, and their religion. That's why other woman's consider them as heroines. because this woman's has demonstrate to the world that if you can dream it you can do it, and that it does not matter how hard the challenge is, we can accomplish it, and be the best at it.
ReplyDeleteThaks for comment on our blog, we all agree that it's very important that government support this woman's in the Olympic Games, and that this woman's demonstrate to the world how important is their respect for their religion,culture, and country. But the most important thing they show was that woman's are in the same conditions as men's.
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ReplyDeleteThe hiyab it's part of Muslim culture, and the government want that the Qur'an it's being respect in all the activities Muslim people does. That why they asked this woman's to used it on their representation in the Olympic Games. The hiyab is an act of obedience at Allah, so they must use it also in this sports activities as a simple symbol of the Islamic religion. As Muslim they should used their hiyab in Olympic Games because they were representing their country, and their country represent their religion, and as woman's and Muslim they respect Allah and the used of the hijab , because of the meanings that it have for them.