Yasmin Alibhai Brown

Last week I had the pleasure and good luck to meet the British journalist Yasmin Alibhai Brown. She is probably famous for speaking out on issues of women and race. We were in a party of no more than twenty people at an NGO and the room was quite packed. She talked for about an Hour and a half and then answered a few questions. It was good to hear some serious debates about the issues affecting both the UK and Malaysia. Having heard in the past in the UK about the issues of forced marriages and honour killings upon which the government had finally decided to take action on, I was not happy to hear about the new phenomenon of bounty hunters. Yes it sounds very wild west, but basically a group of men will hunt down a woman who has run away from her family or marriage, beat her up to subdue her and then returned her to whoever has requested this for the 3000 pounds that is the bounty fee. The men have been asked why they do this, and some are under the mistaken belief that it is their duty. This plus the number of women sold into slavery for prostitution in the UK is showing that a woman’s life has become cheap.

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