Human Rights Watch

Women still suffer numerous human rights violations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) maintains in the following viewpoint. According to the organization, women throughout the world, especially in South America, Africa, and the Middle East, are sexually violated, denied property rights, discriminated against in the workplace, and given few rights in marriage. HRW argues that while the United States and Western Europe have taken steps to improve human rights for
women, those efforts have been inconsistent. Human Rights Watch is the largest U.S.-based human rights organization.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Human Rights Watch, how have women been discriminated against in Saudi Arabia?
2. Why are women vulnerable to trafficking into forced labor, according to the authors?
3. What are some of the inequities in Syrian marriages, as stated by...