Simon & Schuster
April 2014
On Sale: March 24, 2014
224 pages ISBN: 1476773955 EAN: 9781476773957 Kindle: B00HT53JLQ Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The world’s discrimination and violence against women and
girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation
of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter’s call
to action.
President Carter was encouraged to
write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all
faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination
that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal
opportunity in wealthier nations and “owned” by men in
others, forced to suffer servitude, child marriage, and
genital cutting. The most vulnerable, along with their
children, are trapped in war and violence.
A Call
to Action addresses the suffering inflicted upon women
by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious
texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare. Key
verses are often omitted or quoted out of context by male
religious leaders to exalt the status of men and exclude
women. And in nations that accept or even glorify violence,
this perceived inequality becomes the basis for abuse.
President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have visited 145
countries, and The Carter Center has had active projects in
more than half of them. Around the world, they have seen
inequality rising rapidly with each passing decade. This is
true in both rich and poor countries, and among the citizens
within them.
Carter draws upon his own experiences
and the testimony of courageous women from all regions and
all major religions to demonstrate that women around the
world, more than half of all human beings, are being denied
equal rights. This is an informed and passionate charge
about a devastating effect on economic prosperity and
unconscionable human suffering. It affects us all.
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