Name: 吉米-卡特：為什麼我認為虐待婦女是頭號侵犯人權的行為？ (Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:41:03.000Z
Duration: 16 min 37 s

I was trying to think about my career
since I left the White House,

自從我離開白宮後，
就在思考自己的事業，

and the best example I have is a cartoon
in The New Yorker a couple of years ago.

我能想到最好的例子是數年前
在《紐約客》刊出的一則卡通。

This little boy is looking up
at his father,

這個小男孩抬頭仰望
自己的父親，

and he says, "Daddy, when I grow up,
I want to be a former president."

他說：
「爸爸，我長大後要當前總統。」

Well, I have had a great blessing
as a former president,

that very few other people
in the world have ever had

這機會世上只有少數幾個人有，

to get to know so many people
around this whole universe.

就是能瞭解整個宇宙這麼多的人。

Not only am I familiar
with the 50 states in the United States,

but also my wife and I have visited
more than 145 countries in the world,

我與妻子還訪問過
全球超過 145 個國家，

and the Carter Center has had full-time
programs in 80 nations on Earth.

而且卡特中心還在全世界
80 個國家設立全職單位。

And a lot of times,
when we go into a country,

有很多時候，
我們進入一個國家時，

we not only the meet
the king or the president,

but we also meet the villagers who live
in the most remote areas of Africa.

我們還會見居住在
非洲偏遠地區的村民。

So our overall commitment
at the Carter Center

and knowing the world as I do,
I can tell you without any equivocation

了解世界如我，
我可以很明確的告訴你

that the number one abuse
of human rights on Earth

is, strangely, not addressed quite often,
is the abuse of women and girls.

很奇怪，大家不太討論這個，
就是虐待婦女及女童。

There are a couple of reasons for this
that I'll mention to begin with.

接下來我會談造成的幾個原因。

First of all is the misinterpretation
of religious scriptures, holy scriptures,

第一個就是錯誤闡釋
宗教經文、聖經經文，

in the Bible, Old Testament,
New Testament, Quran and so forth,

無論是聖經的舊約、新約，
還是可蘭經等等都是，

and these have been misinterpreted by men
who are now in the ascendant positions

這些經文被男性錯誤闡釋，
而他們在猶太會堂、

in the synagogues and the churches
and in the mosques.

基督教堂或回教清真寺
位居優越地位。

And they interpret these rules
to make sure that women

are ordinarily relegated
to a secondary position

This is a very serious problem.
It's ordinarily not addressed.

這是很嚴重的問題，
通常很少人提及。

I had been a Baptist,
a Southern Baptist for 70 years --

我是浸信會的會友，
在美南浸信會 70 年了，

I tell you, I still teach
Sunday school every Sunday;

我告訴你們，
我每個星期天都還在教主日學；

but the Southern Baptist Convention
in the year 2000 decided

但是 2000 年，
美南浸信會聯會做出決定

that women should play
a secondary position,

that prevents women from being priests,
pastors, deacons in the church,

實施不讓女性在教會
當祭司、牧師、執事，

they cannot teach if a boy is in the room,

because you can find verses in the Bible,

因為你可以在聖經裡找到經文，

that say that a woman shouldn't
teach a man, and so forth.

說婦女不應教導男性，諸如此類。

But the basic thing is the scriptures
are misinterpreted

and if an abusive husband or an employer,
for instance, wants to cheat women,

而且舉例來說，
如果施虐的丈夫或雇主想騙女性，

they can say that if women
are not equal in the eyes of God,

他們會說如果婦女
在神的眼中並不平等，

why should I treat them as equals myself?

為什麼我應該
平等待她們如待己？

Why should I pay them equal pay
for doing the same kind of work?

另一項造成這個問題的嚴重因素

that causes this problem
is the excessive resort to violence,

and that is increasing
tremendously around the world.

In the United States of America,
for instance, we have had

an enormous increase
in abuse of poor people,

mostly black people and minorities,
by putting them in prison.

絕大多數為黑人及少數族裔，
他們被關進牢裡。

When I was in office
as governor of Georgia,

one out of every 1,000 Americans
were in prison.

每千名美國人中有一個人坐牢。

Nowadays, 7.3 people
per 1,000 are in prison.

there's been an 800 percent increase
in the number of women

We also have
[one of the only countries] on Earth

that still has the death penalty
that is a developed country.

And we rank right alongside
the countries that are most abusive

in all elements of human rights
in encouraging the death penalty.

We're in California now,
and I figured out the other day

我們現在在加州開會，
而有一天我發現

that California has spent
four billion dollars

in convicting 13 people
for the death penalty.

If you add that up, that's 307 million
dollars it costs California

如果你加一加，
加州要花三億七百萬美元

Nebraska this week just passed a law
abolishing the death penalty,

內布拉斯加州
本週才通過法律廢止死刑，

So the resort to violence and abuse
of poor people and helpless people

所以訴諸暴力
與虐待窮苦及無助的人

is another cause of the increase
in abuse of women.

是虐待婦女現象
增加的另一項原因。

Let me just go down a very few
abuses of women that concern me most,

接下來我要說幾個
我特別關心的婦女受虐情況，

and I'll be fairly brief, because I have
a limited amount of time, as you know.

我會盡量簡潔，
因為你們知道我的演講時間有限。

Genital mutilation is horrible
and not known by American women,

女陰殘割非常恐怖，
而且美國女性對此一無所知，

但是在某些國家，在許多國家，

when a child is born that's a girl,
very soon in her life,

her genitals are completely cut away
by a so-called cutter

她的外生殖器
會被所謂操刀者完全切除，

who has a razor blade and,
in a non-sterilized way,

操刀者持一把刀片，
沒有消毒過，

they remove the exterior parts
of a woman's genitalia.

And sometimes, in more extreme cases
but not very rare cases,

有時候，有些很慘卻非罕見的例子，

they sew the orifice up so the girl
can just urinate or menstruate.

他們會縫合陰道，只剩小洞，
讓女孩能排尿或排月經。

And then later, when she gets married,
the same cutter goes in

之後，當她要結婚時，
同樣的操刀者

and opens the orifice up
so she can have sex.

會來切開這個小洞，
所以她能有性行為。

This is not a rare thing, although
it's against the law in most countries.

這並不罕見，
儘管大部分國家都明文禁止。

91 percent of all the females
that live in Egypt today

have been sexually mutilated in that way.

In some countries,
it's more than 98 percent

of the women are cut that way
before they reach maturity.