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WIN-Belize speaks out against Amandala newspaper article

By on October 22, 2013

The Women’s Issues Network of Belize has also issued a statement condemning the Amandala article on the issue of rape which appeared in the Sunday, October 20 edition of the newspaper. 

WIN-Belize in its statement condemned the article saying that “the tasteless and nonsensical comments … were written without consideration for the emotional harm such comments would cause victims and families.” 

The organization also called for the newspaper and the writer of the article “to apologize to the women and children of Belize.”

The WIN-Belize statement goes on to say that “to make comments such as (1) the female might one day fall in love with the male; (2) the female provoked the immature/crazy male to commit this act; (3) It is a natural act; and (4) the female might be entirely whorish, so the act is of little consequence is unbecoming, for women should not be portrayed as sex objects.”

The WIN-Belize statement ends by saying that the organization is “appalled by such statements and is calling on all civil society organizations, the business community and the general public to support us in this call to condemn such statements and to demand an apology.”

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