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Violence against women is a cross-cultural phenomenon related to male control of women's sexuality, the relationships between women and property, and economic inequalities between men and women. "Bride kidnapping" is only one example of these interconnections.  Go to the Website (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/kyrgyzstan/After reviewing the material on this site, write a reflection paper on ‘Violence against Women’ addressing the following questions:  a. What is "bride kidnappingg"?  b. Is bride kidnapping legal in Kyrgyzstan?  c. What are the barriers to stopping this practice?  d. In your opinion, how is bride kidnapping similar to date rape in the United States?  Please note: In addition to the above mentioned website, each reflection paper must include a bibliography of no less than three sources-one electronic, another from a peer reviewed journal and lastly, a magazine/newspaper.  Reflection Paper : General Instructions and Rubric    Purpose: Throughout your course, you will be expected to provide evidence that you both understand and meet written and analytical standards. One way of doing this is to produce a well-written and thought-out response to important questions and issues facing both you as an individual and society as a whole. Therefore, you will be asked throughout this course to develop reflective responses on various topics.    Format: All reflection paper should be 2-3 pages long, typed, double-spaced and in a 12 point regular font with one-inch margins. Despite the fact that these paper are designed to reflect your thinking process, they must cite external sources as these will help you to develop an informed opinion based on facts and not biases. Thus, each reflection paper must include a bibliography of no less than three sources-one electronic, another from a peer reviewed journal and lastly, a magazine/newspaper. These sources must be legitimate and fully referenced (i.e. no wikipedia and no blogs). You have to use MLA citation style. Grammar and spelling will count. Do not dash these off at the last minute. Please make appointments with the Academic Support Center before due date for them to be reviewed. These reflection papers are to be used as proof of your meeting standards and therefore must be thoughtful and meaningful.

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THE EVIL OF BRIDE KIDNAPPING 
Anyone can get stunned by going through the reports of bride kidnapping which is still 
being carried on as tradition in some countries of the world and especially in Kyrgyzstan. Living 
in this technologically advanced era of the 21
st
 century where almost each and every country of 
the world is trying to formulate legislation to provide equal opportunities to women and to 
provide them with fundamental human rights one can be spellbound to learn that still now in 
many parts of the world the practice of bride kidnapping is being traditionally followed. It is a 
shameful practice which should be prevented from persisting and its existence should be seized 
not only to protect the fundamental rights of women but to restrict the advancement of the devil 
in the domain of mankind.  
Bride kidnapping denotes a brutal and primitive custom in which “single young men 
kidnap their bride of choice and pressure them to agree to marriage…” (Najibullah, 2011) 
Traditionally when a Kyrgyz man in his twenties urges to get married for the first time he selects 
a bride and starts arranging for her kidnapping. Usually the man is accompanied by his friends in 
seizing the young woman, most of the time in a violent manner and the woman is being driven to 
the captor’s family home. The female relatives of the captor do the rest of the job by persuading 
the kidnapped woman to marry her captor. It is one of the worst genres of violence against 
woman and can be equated to the perverted practice of date rape which is often to found in the 
Western countries, mainly in the U.S. It is astonishing that though the practice of bride 
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kidnapping is legally banned in Kyrgyzstan, it is a country where the convention is still going on 
in vogue. By going through the article “Kyrgyzstan – The Kidnapped Bride” on the website 
www.pbs.org (2004) anybody can be astonished and frightened to learn how young women are 
being kidnapped by group of men in order to make them accept a forceful marriage.

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