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26 Jul, 2015

Women’s rights speech

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Obama wraps up visit to Kenya with a speech about discrimination against women.

Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is, but just because something is part of your past doesn’t make it right; it doesn’t mean it defines your future. Around the world there is a tradition of oppressing women and treating them differently and not giving them the same opportunities, and husbands beating their wives, and children not being sent to school. Those are traditions. Treating women and girls as second-class citizens. Those are bad traditions. They need to change.

Treating women as second-class citizens is a bad tradition: it holds you back. There’s no excuse for sexual assault or domestic violence, there’s no reason that young girls should suffer genital mutilation, there’s no place in a civilised society for the early or forced marriage of children. These traditions may go back centuries; they have no place in the 21st century.

Stop treating women as second class citizens,President Obama tells Kenyan community

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Marta

In the last stages of his presidency Obama has finally proved that he deserves his Nobel Peace Prize.

Gustavo

Very good speech. Gender inequality is still a big issue in today’s world and no amount of cultural sensitivity can justify it.

Sabrina

Perhaps the Kenyan government should ask him about the 7 million children under 10 in the United States living in
poverty, no education and starving.