Open AccessWomen in Detention in the Middle East: A Human Rights Perspective
Author(s) -
Mervat Rishmawi
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.502
Subject(s) - honor , middle east , prejudice (legal term) , perspective (graphical) , human rights , law , subject (documents) , political science , criminology , psychology , sociology , library science , computer science , operating system , artificial intelligence
Women in the Middle East are systematically subjected to discrimination, prejudice, stereotypical treatment, and lack of protection by the law, customs and practice. Nowhere is this more evident than upon arrest or detention where they often find themselves subject to double discrimination : firstly, as “criminals”, or offenders, and secondly as women. The protective Arab culture of the “honor” and “interest” of the woman suddenly vanishes, and what is normally seen as the unacceptable, suddenly becomes acceptable.