Por Inspiracion Femenina
Nos sorprendía la noticia en el New York Times (aunque no de reciente actualidad) de que el expresidente norteamericano Jimmy Carter, conocido en su etapa post presidencial como un defensor de los derechos humanos, ha anunciado su proxima publicacion de un libro sobre la situacion mundial de la mujer. Para Jimmy Carter, la discriminacion contra mujeres y niñas es una de las peores y mas ignoradas violaciones contra los derechos humanos.
Aqui os dejamos el articulo del New York Times, así como un video de uno de sus discursos al respecto.
Jimmy
Carter Seeks to Write Book on Treatment of Women
By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: September 9, 2013
Jimmy Carter, whose prolific
postpresidential career as an author has covered aging, his Southern boyhood and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is now tackling the
treatment of women.
According to a book proposal
that has circulated among several major publishers in the last week, Mr. Carter
plans to write a 50,000-word book about “all aspects of women’s lives” that
explores the unequal treatment of women around the world and the use of
religious texts to justify discrimination.
The book proposal, a copy of
which was obtained by The Times, was sent to publishers by Lynn Nesbit, the
literary agent whose clients include Joan Didion and Robert A. Caro.
“I am convinced that
discrimination against women and girls is one of the world’s most serious,
all-pervasive and largely ignored violations of basic human rights,” Mr.
Carter, 88, wrote in the proposal, adding: “It is disturbing to realize that
women are treated most equally in some countries that are atheistic or where
governments are strictly separated from religion.”
Mr. Carter, who has traveled
the world as an author and human rights activist since the end of his
presidency, said he would rely on many of his own experiences as fodder for the
book.
“Whenever possible, I’ll use
my personal observations and experiences, such as a trip around Africa with
Bill Gates Sr. and his wife,” Mr. Carter wrote, “during which he and I spent
much of our time in enormous brothels, and appeared with Nelson Mandela to end
South Africa’s practice of outlawing treatment for H.I.V.-AIDS.”
Mr. Carter wrote in the
proposal that he had been asked to write the book by a “wide coalition” of
religious leaders. He has also solicited contributions from women’s activists
for the book.
Women’s rights was the subject
of a recent speech in Atlanta by Mr. Carter, who
spoke out against mistreatment of women and girls.
Ms. Nesbit did not immediately
return a call seeking comment.
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