Our country is
hosting the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London today. However, the UK,
particularly its human rights departments, are now suffering heavy PR troubles as
the media had exposed the UK’s women asylum seekers are suffering. So much for
upping the values of human and women’s rights when women knocking at the doors
are made to wait.
The stringent
methods of the UK Immigration Department and Home Office in terms of providing
asylum to men and women from different countries, and their failure to handle
cases of women who were victims of sexual violence during war or a crime, is
becoming a big deal to the world.
How crude it
is to look at our government when you realize that everything they are doing is
just PR. Sure, it raises awareness, but in other locations. The UK government
needs to look at its backyard and see that the people they claim to fight for
in such summits are the same people they refuse entry into the country.
Rape and
mistreatment of women are indeed primitive and carnal crimes, but the biggest
crime is hypocrisy, where those who preach could not practice the message they
are trying to send.
