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A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

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by Jimmy Carter


  Nineteenth Amendment, 164

  Nobel Peace Prize, 53, 80

  nonviolent crime, 35

  North Carolina, 30

  North Dakota, 38

  Nuns on the Bus, 36

  Obama, Barack, 35, 50

  Obasanjo, Olusegun, 139

  obesity, 172

  oil, 55, 63

  Oman, 181

  onchocerciasis, 72

  On God’s Side (Wallis), 194

  Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 168

  Orthodox Church, 102

  Our Endangered Values (Carter), 90

  Oxford University, 84–85

  Pakistan, 17, 57, 58, 59, 63, 80, 90, 151, 163

  child marriage in, 158–59

  dowries in, 158

  drone strikes in, 57, 58, 59

  Guinea worm in, 63

  green revolution in, 86

  rape in, 151

  Palau, 182

  Palestine, 63

  Palmer, Paul, 188

  Panama, 17

  Park Geun-hye, 164

  Parliament of the World’s Religions, 3

  “Pasture Gate, The” (Carter), 11

  Paul, Saint, 25–26, 27, 100, 101–2

  pay gap, 4, 113, 168–69

  PBS News Hour, 116

  peace, 5, 6, 10, 11–18, 34, 53, 55–56, 62, 72, 90, 95, 103, 120, 145, 160, 172, 181, 182, 183, 193, 196, 198

  peace agreements, 62, 72, 83, 92, 94

  Peace Corps, U.S., 60, 76, 155

  Peaceful Families Project, 145

  Pentecostals, 101

  persecution, 71

  Peru, 86

  Peter, Saint, 112

  Pfizer, 77

  Pharisees, 23, 100

  Philippians 4:2, 3, 101–2

  Philippines, 106, 116, 163, 177

  Plains, Ga., 7–8, 20, 29

  Plains Baptist Church, 10

  polygamy, 65–66, 107

  Potter, Gary, 38–39

  poverty, 1, 71, 172

  women in, 86–87

  Presbyterians, 113

  presidential pardons, 36

  President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 140

  preventive war, 57

  Priscilla (biblical char.), 25, 26

  prostitution, 126–27, 128, 129, 132, 186–88, 198

  Protestants, 4, 20, 39, 95, 108, 113

  Public Broadcasting System, 150

  Qadeem, Mossarat, 58–59

  Rabbani, Burhanuddin, 147, 148

  “Rachel” (poem), 8

  racism, 1

  in old South, 8–9

  Rambold, Stacey, 50

  Rania, Queen (Jordan), 152

  rape, 41–42, 43–44, 84, 87, 95, 118–24, 130, 144, 191–92

  in military, 46–50

  trials for, 50–51

  in war, 59

  Reagan, Ronald, 35

  religion:

  sexism opposed by, 3–4

  sexism supported by, 2, 3–4, 19–31, 185, 195

  violence incompatible with, 6

  see also specific religions

  Rishmawi, Mona, 67, 133

  river blindness, 72

  Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), 63–64

  Robinson, Mary, 160n

  Roe v. Wade, 183

  Romans 16, 26

  Romero, Oscar, 111

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 14, 178

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 163, 178

  Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, 179

  Rotary club, 34

  Rothko Chapel, 52

  Rouseff, Dilma, 164

  Rural Health and Education Service Trust (RHEST), 131

  Russia, 55, 191

  Rwanda, 120, 121, 164, 191

  Sadat, Anwar, 92, 98

  Sadat, Jehan, 181–82

  SAFE (surgery, antibiotics, face washing, and environment), 77, 78–79

  Samar, Sima, 90–91

  Sandinistas, 69

  Sarah, 23

  Sasakawa, Ryoichi, 80

  Saudi Arabia, 14, 28, 40, 63, 164, 181

  Schakowsky, Jan, 185–86

  schistosomiasis, 72

  Schlafly, Phyllis, 185

  Schlumberger Limited, 52

  Seaboard Airline Railroad, 7

  segregation, 7, 10, 11

  Selassie, Haile, 174

  Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), 160n, 192–93

  Sen, Amartya, 115

  Senate, U.S., 58

  Armed Services Committee of, 58

  see also Congress, U.S.

  Senegal, 155–56

  “separate but equal,” 10

  September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 55, 57

  Serbia, 17

  Sevre-Duszynska, Janice, 111

  sex, extramarital, 9, 11–12, 36

  sex tourism, 186

  sexual abuse, 4, 19, 95

  sexual assault, 41–43, 87, 113, 152

  sexually transmitted disease, 108, 186

  see also AIDS

  Shadowline Films, 115

  Sharia law, 62

  Sharma, Ritu, 136, 176

  Shaw Air Force Base, 51

  Shenouda III, Coptic Pope, 98

  Shiite Muslims, 61, 95

  Sierra Leone, 83, 156

  Singapore, 106

  Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson, 83, 87, 164

  Sisters in Islam (SIS), 4, 11, 105–7

  slaves, slavery, 1, 83, 87, 95, 116, 125–41, 162

  in Bible, 10–11

  Slavery Museum, 134

  Snyder, Rachel Louise, 143–44

  social media, 128

  Sojourners, 45, 194

  Solomon, King (biblical char.), 23

  Somalia, 17, 156, 173, 174, 182

  Somoza Debayle, Anastasio, 69

  sonograms, 115

  South, 7

  Deep, 1, 10

  South Africa, 136–38

  South African Medical Research Council, 121

  South Carolina, 51

  South Dakota, 38

  Southern Baptist Convention, 19, 22, 54

  South Korea, 144, 160, 164, 169, 179

  gendercide banned in, 116

  imported brides in, 116

  South Sudan, 75, 160, 161

  Soviet Union, 145

  Spann, Gloria Carter, 60–61

  spouse abuse, 142–49, 152

  State Department, U.S., 62, 127, 129, 133, 135

  Stop Girl Trafficking (SGT), 130–32

  strokes, 172

  Sudan, 75, 77, 156, 160, 161, 174, 175, 182

  Sufi Muslims, 95

  Suharto, 166

  Sukarno, 167

  Sunni Muslims, 61, 94, 95

  Supreme Court, Cananda, 187

  Supreme Court, Ga., 33

  Supreme Court, U.S., 1, 10, 37, 94, 183

  Suriname, 37

  Sweden, 70, 187

  Switzerland, 177, 184

  Syntyche (biblical char.), 101–2

  Syria, 62, 191

  Taliban, 59, 145, 148

  Tanzania, 120, 121

  Tayeb, Ahmed el-, 94

  Taylor, Charles, 83

  Teresa, Mother, 40

  terrorism, 5, 54, 55, 57, 58, 196

  Texas, 38

  Textile labor Association, 192

  Thailand, 144

  TheEroticReview, 128

  Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks, 16, 142

  Thornton, Grant, 68

  Tijani Sufi Order of Islam, 93

  Times of India, 159

  Timor-Leste, 143

  Timothy (biblical char.), 25, 101

  Togo, 29, 30, 75, 82

  Tolbert, William, 83

  Tonga, 182

  torture, 15, 90, 111, 121

  Tostan, 103, 155, 157, 181, 194

  trachoma, 72, 76, 77, 78, 79, 174

  trafficking, 1, 4, 116, 127–34, 186–88, 197

  Trafficking in Persons Report, 133–34

  Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 129

  tub
erculosis, 173

  Tumah, Mama, 85

  Turkey, 55

  Tutsi people, 120, 121

  Ubuntu, 31

  Uganda, 28, 75, 120, 140–41

  UNICEF, 129, 143, 156, 157, 173

  United Arab Emirates, 181

  United Nations, 13, 15, 17, 18, 36, 54, 56, 57, 89, 162

  Charter of, 13–15

  Children’s Fund of, 115

  Development Program, 87

  General Assembly of, 40, 192

  Human Rights Council of, 67, 161

  International Labor Organization of, 126

  Millennium Development Goals of, 86, 173, 175

  resolutions on women’s rights, 182–83, 198

  Security Council of, 13, 16–17, 55, 121, 191–92

  Women, 87

  United States:

  abortion in, 183–84

  in armed conflicts, 17–18

  child mortality in, 116

  gender gap in, 177

  incarceration rate of, 35

  rape in, 118

  women’s rights convention not passed by, 182, 197

  Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3, 14–16, 27, 90, 91, 163, 178, 185

  Article 19 of, 86

  Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (Hvistendahl), 116

  Uriah (biblical char.), 39

  Vatican, see Catholic Church

  Vatican II, 108, 109

  Veterans Affairs Department, U.S., 48

  Vietnam, 17, 116

  Vikhroli, India, 60, 61

  violence, 6, 39, 40, 52–59, 61, 71, 82, 84, 91, 119, 120, 124, 132, 135, 152, 194, 195–96

  see also domestic violence; honor killings; sexual assault

  Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 185

  Violence and Victims, 43

  Virginia, 38

  voting rights, 62, 164

  Voting Rights Act, 164

  Wahid, Abdurahman, 167–68

  Wailing Wall, 104

  Wallis, Jim, 45, 194

  war, 1, 13, 17

  civilian casualties in, 53, 56–59, 91, 116

  rape and violence against women in, 59, 71, 90–91

  war on terror, 57, 90

  Washington Post, 48, 111

  West Point, 47

  West Virginia, 38

  Will, George, 3

  Wink, Walter, 142

  Wise, Sam, 172

  Wise Sanitarium, 172

  women:

  in Africa, 83–85

  in Catholic Church, 108–11, 112–13

  in China, 67–69, 70

  on company boards, 169–70

  corruption and, 87

  driving rights of, 65

  education of, 60–61, 65, 86, 88, 105, 145, 170–71, 184, 197

  health education and, 77–79

  incarceration of, 35, 36–37

  information rights of, 86–88

  in Judaism, 103–5

  as leaders in early Christian Church, 26

  in military, 45–50

  in New Testament ministry, 102

  in Nicaragua, 69–70

  as political leaders, 163–68

  in poverty, 86–87

  property rights of, 84, 107

  as religious leaders, 99–100

  in Saudi Arabia, 63–67

  treated as equals by Jesus, 23–26, 30, 99, 100–101, 102, 139

  voting rights of, 62, 164

  see also girls

  Women, 99

  Women in Church and Society, 31

  Women in the Chinese Revolution (1921–1950), 68

  Women’s Learning Partnership, 106

  Women’s Ordination Conference, 110

  World Bank, 72, 162

  World Conference on Human Rights, 155, 184–85

  World Council of Churches, 31

  World Economic Forum, 69

  World Health Organization, 72, 77, 115, 143, 154, 160n, 173

  World Trade Center, 57

  World War I, 53

  World War II, 6, 13

  World Youth Day (2013), 110

  WuDunn, Sheryl, 95

  Yemen, 17, 57, 58, 62, 63

  Zagano, Phyllis, 110

  Zagazig University, 94

  Zaire, 120

  Zedillo, Ernesto, 160n

  Zimbabwe, 81, 160

  Zinawe, Meles, 174–75

  Zithromax (azithromycin), 77, 78

  Zoloth, Laurie, 172–73

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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  Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. In 1982, he and his wife founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people around the world. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including An Hour Before Daylight, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, and Our Endangered Values. He lives in Plains, Georgia.

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