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There was a young woman who leave her home in Mycrorayan in Kabul, Afghanistan forPeshawar after the January 1994 fighting and told Amnesty supranational of thefollowing situation. "One day when my father was walking past a building complex heheard screams of women coming from an apartment point which had just been capturedby forces of General Dostum. He was told by the people that Dostums guards hadentered the dis spread over and were looting the property and raping the women."The following story comes out of Iran. "On disdainful 10, 1994, in the city of Arak,Iran, a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. agree to the ruling of thereligious judge, her husband and two children were forced to attend the execution.The woman urged her husband to take the children away, but to no avail. A truck just of stones was brought in to be used during the stoning. In the middle of thestoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape fromthe ditch and started running away, but the regimes guards recaptured her and shother to death."From china comes the following observation. "Still in the streets an occasional oldcrone hobbling well-nigh on her miniature bound feet was a relic of the pre- extremist, almost out of work past. I also heard an echo of that past in a silk threadfactory in Wuxi, China. A woman member of its Revolutionary Committee wasintroduced to me as a veteran worker. The description astonished me because shelooked so young. On inquiry I learned that she was indeed yet 34 years old, butthat she had toiled in the mill for twenty-six years, having begun this prank as an 8-year old child.These three incidents reflect typical crimes and injustices against women in theThird World countries. Crimes against women include abuse, slavery, falseimprisonment, murder and rape. In these countries, women ar considered to beinferior to men and are not granted equate rights or protection under the laws. Thegover nments, religions and cultures of these countries support the inequalities,thus allowing vicious crimes against women to continue without any recourse by thevictims. The phrase womens rights refers to the basic human rights that arewithheld from women simply because they are women. Womens rights promotepolitical, social and economic compare for women in a society that traditionallyconfers more status and liberty to men. A basic right is for girls to grow up to bewomen straight off twelve percent of the females born worldwide are missing, many of them