Talk:Tahirih Justice Center

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The Chart of abuse of women / children; In the chart of 2006, Sweden (among others) are marked black (as a country with (I guess) a significant number of women and childrend seeking refugee in USA claiming abuse in their 'black' homeland. I would very much like to see some documentation of this (as well as for the other European countries). I'm myself a Norwegian (Norway is marked white) and have never seen Sweden as an abusive country, contrary it is more a country of absolute political correctness! gunnar_hellem@hotmail.com

as a country with (I guess) a significant number of women and childrend seeking refugee in USA claiming abuse - No. It's a country from which the Center has had any clients. Raul654 07:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah there's no implication that Sweden is somehow abusive. I agree with you - it is a very nice country - but they have had some women from there come for help.UberCryxic 13:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistent viewpoint?

From the article:

Tahirih helps women who are attempting to escape from such abuse as female genital cutting, domestic violence, human trafficking, torture and rape.

It has seemed, over time, that the consensus of editors at Female genital cutting is to prefer that article title over such suggested alternatives as Female Circumcision or Female Genital Mutilation. One of the reasons for this is the position, forwarded on FGC's talk page by some who support the FGC title, that it is a POV to portray FGC as abuse (ie., some insist that FGC is not necessarily abuse). Yet this article outright and openly describes FGC as "abuse" (along with a number of other activities about whose abusive nature there is no dispute). It seems that the editors of the two article have differing views on whether the procedure qualifies as abuse. What is the best solution to overcoming this mismatch in viewpoint? Cheers, Kasreyn 22:06, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Of the 5 places where "Female genital cutting" is used (and alluded to abuse), most state it as the organization's belief:

1. In the lead: "Tahirih helps women who are attempting to escape from such abuse as female genital cutting : in this case it is not stated as Tahirih's belief, but if women are attempting to escape, they would probably think it's abuse.
2. In the section on "Beginning: "Fauziya Kassindja was a Togolese teenager who fled her native land in 1994 to escape from a forced polygamous marriage and a tribal practice of female genital cutting." This is a factual statement.
3. In the section on "Growth": "According to the United Nations, two million women undergo female genital cutting in Africa every year.": This a factual statement, but the previous sentence uses the word abuse, so it could be changed to state "claimed abuse" or something like that.
4. Section on "Female Genital Cutting": Section clearly indicates that it is the organization's belief.
5. Section on "Criticism and response": The section again places it as Tahirih's belief. ("Tahirih posits").

So I don't see much of a problem. -- Jeff3000 22:26, 26 September 2006 (UTC)