Wired for submission It's time to ditch the pieties and ask if multiculturalism and women's rights can really co-exist
14th Nov 2006, 12:48 GMT
On Thursday evening in Surrey, B.C., there was a remarkable scene. A string of South Asian women stood up at a public meeting to speak out. Their stories weren't pretty. One woman, speaking in Punjabi and English, recounted 20 years of punches, slaps and taunts from the husband with whom she still lives. ''If I can improve one girl's life, it is worth my husband's anger,'' she said.
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