WUNRN
Women Living Under Muslim Laws -
International Solidarity Network - March 2014
STONING - LEGAL
OR PRACTISED IN 16 COUNTIRES & NO SIGNS OF ABATING
Women Under Muslim Laws Submission
to the Secretary-General
on the Question of the Death Penalty
to the UN Human Rights Council
Direct Link to Full 6-Page 2014
Submission:
Exerpt:
"Stoning can be seen as
the violent pinnacle of a system of policing women’s freedoms in relation to
concepts of sexual 'morality'. Women are the primary targets of these concepts,
owing to patriarchal interpretations of religion, and misogynist culture more
generally. Women are perceived to be the bearers of ‘honour’ and as such their
commitment of zina is viewed as a more serious transgression than men's and is
punished at higher rates. In Iran, for example, the gender nature of adultery
and morality is written into the legal structures; the criminalization of zina
has been overwhelmingly directed against Iranian women because Iranian men
enjoy both a unilateral right to divorce and a right to marry two permanent
wives in polygamous marriages and an unlimited number of temporary wives in
Mut’a (temporary marriages)."
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