| A woman has the right to happiness, the right to know, the right to make choices that affect her life and the right to have her opinion respected regarding her own body and her place in the family and in society. A woman has a right to respect within her family, the community and society. An empowered woman is free from enslavement, free from mental, physical or moral abuse from her family, social group or nation and she enjoys the right to develop herself to her full potential, spiritually, intellectually, artistically, socially and politically according to her choice. Moral abuse is to subject women to remarks that accuse and shame her for moral profligacy, if she does not conform to the dictates of the patriarchy or does not show respect to her husband or in laws in ways that they demand. She may be accused of taking a lover without any sign or evidence of this being the case. |