(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
The father). The father must, of course, take good care of his daughter's reputation, after all he is not anyone but Albania's next dictator.
You have to be tough trying to steal something that is mine.
The daughter tries to intervene but gets a punch in the face for answers. The humiliation is the start of a woman rebellion that has major political consequences in the Balkans, not least for the danger.
This week Amnesty International presented a report showing that violence against women worldwide is increasing. As many as 20 percent of the world's women are subjected to serious abuse or sexual abuse. In many cases, it is family members or people from the local community who practice the abuse.
The report "Broken bodies, shattered minds" not only documents the abuses but also shows that states are responsible for the abusers escaping. Serious physical abuse, sexual abuse and psychological harassment of women is considered torture, Amnesty believes, and states are obliged, according to human rights conventions, to ensure that their citizens are not subjected to torture and mistreatment.
In Norway, a report recently showed that rapists get away cheaper if it turns out that the woman is more easily dressed and has been drinking. Last year, police received 555 rapes and 126 rapes. 80 percent of all investigated cases are closed. The dark numbers are large because many choose not to report the rape. In addition, we can imagine that the numbers are far higher if we move into the private sphere; women in marriage and cohabitation who are subjected to abuse but who do not even consider the idea that this belongs in a court of law.
State morality is clear: There are no bad men, only bad clothes.
And bad spirits.
Italian author Umberto Eco attempts in the book "Four Moral Essays" to draw the lines of a secular ethic, an ethic that can bind the religious and that is all-encompassing. Umberto Eco delves into the depths of all things, and concludes that respect for the other's body must set a premise for all interpersonal relationships. Any attempt to sabotage the other body's free will is a violation of an ethics Eco thinks we should all agree on; it's the body we eat with, it's the body we talk to, it's the body we think of, it's the body we love.
In this perspective, all the women of the world are potential victims. The man's physical size imposes on him the ethical responsibility our fragile civilization rests upon. This responsibility is the state's duty to uphold, and find appropriate, deterrent penalties.
A suggestions may be to create a separate International Women's Day in addition to March 8, where women are allowed to dress as lightly as they want and men must wear handcuffs on their backs.
And the bar cabinet should be empty of cognac before the evening is over.
