A Call To Action - Jimmy Carter

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Wow...Jimmy Carter always surprises me. Tonight (March 24) on David Letterman he spoke of his new book about the extensive brutality and abuses against women across the globe. He did not shy away from a frank description of these abuses. making an impassioned plea to turn the tide of global crimes against women that are higher now than at any time in history. From sex trafficking to the killing of female infants (particularly in Asian countries) to mutilation.... Carter lays it all out and then offers actionable remedies. The video is not posted yet but be sure to watch it.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/video/
Oops here's the entire review posted in Videos by a fellow DUer:

A Call To Action, by Jimmy Carter:
The world’s discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call to action.

President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal opportunity in wealthier nations and “owned” by men in others, forced to suffer servitude, child marriage, and genital cutting. The most vulnerable, along with their children, are trapped in war and violence.

A Call to Action addresses the suffering inflicted upon women by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare. Key verses are often omitted or quoted out of context by male religious leaders to exalt the status of men and exclude women. And in nations that accept or even glorify violence, this perceived inequality becomes the basis for abuse. President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have visited 145 countries, and The Carter Center has had active projects in more than half of them. Around the world, they have seen inequality rising rapidly with each passing decade. This is true in both rich and poor countries, and among the citizens within them.
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