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| Suicides Way Up in Iranian Provinces, Especially Among Women |
| 2004-08-18 |
| From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran Daily reported on 16 August that there has been a marked increase in suicide attempts in the Kermanshah and Ilam provinces since 2001, particularly among women resorting to self-immolation. Hadi Motamedi of the Office for Social Disorders of the State Welfare Organization said that a survey carried out in Kermanshah Province, where the number of suicides has increased by 37 percent in the past three years, found that more than 50 percent of women there suffer from depression, of whom about 15 percent attempt suicide. Motamedi said that the eight-year war with Iraq left these women vulnerable to mental illness. "These women have been suffering from dual deprivations due to being unaware of their rights," Motamedi said. "Factors such as a rise in education level, lack of jobs, lack of access of counselors and psychiatrists, mistreatment, and abuse by their spouses, family violence, [a] growing awareness of social conditions, and inappropriate family behavior and relations can induce suicide attempts among women." Motamedi said that he hopes the newly created Welfare and Social Security Ministry will effectively address the problem. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 You also have the right to be instantly divorced for any reason and be sent home to your parents without your children. You have the right to be forbidden an appeal. You have the right to live your whole life desparately trying to please your husband so that he won't rip the rug of your whole life out from under you for whatever reason seems good to him. And you also have the right to be stuck with an abusive no good husband like it or not because your a silly flighty woman who isn't capable of making such a big decision on her own. You have the right to have to seek permission from the court to divorce your husband and the right to wait forever while your case is simply ignored for your own good. |
| Posted by: peggy 2004-08-18 2:05:02 PM |
| #1 These women have been suffering from dual deprivations due to being unaware of their rights," Motamedi said. You have the right to be married off underaged to your cousin. You have the right to be beaten. You have the right to see 2nd, 3rd, 4th and temporary wives in your household. You have the right to 1/2 of what a man gets. You have the right to honor killing and suicide. You have the right to keep quiet. You do not have the right to humane treatment, opportunity or your body. Any questions? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-08-18 1:33:47 AM |