Chapter Ⅴ 爱的港湾飘洒圣哲丝语（12）
这种虐待长久以来都在继续，因为妇女的历史一直都是沉默的历史。即使在今天，仍然存在试图使我们的话语沉默的人。但是，这次在怀柔参加会议的妇女的声音必须大声地和清楚地被听到：
These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly:
当仅仅因为她们是女婴时，就被绝食，或被溺死，或被窒息死，或被折断脊椎，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.
当妇女和女孩由于人类的贪婪和其他各种原因而被贩卖为**奴隶时、在过去被合法化的行为不应该再被容忍，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed—and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated.
当妇女因被认为她们的嫁妆太少而被浇上汽油放火烧死时，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
当个别妇女在自己的社区被**和成千上万的妇女被作为战争的手段或奖励而遭**时，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.
当全世界的年龄在14至44岁的妇女的死亡的首要原因是遭受自己亲人的暴力行为时，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.
当年轻的女孩遭受痛苦的切割***官的侮辱人格的兽行时，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.
当妇女被剥夺规划自己的家庭的权利，包括违反她们意愿被强迫堕胎或绝育时，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own f***lies, and that includes being forced to have abortions or