Persuasive SpeechEssay Preview: Persuasive SpeechReport this essaySpeech 2Strive to Lift the Ban on Women DrivingI. Introduction:A. Attention Getter/Relating subject to audience: Good evening. How many of you have been part of a Human Rights campaign in their life? What good does it do? Through these advocacy groups we are trying to influence public opinion and even policy. According to the UN Human Rights Council, a 2013 publication, announced about 400 Human rights organizations in the world.
B. Orienting Material:1. Introduce topic clearly: Today, I will be addressing the effective use of lobbying in an attempt to lift the ban on women driving in KSA.2. Establish Credibility: Major world policies that tackled societal discrimination and equality, all started off with public protests and campaigns. For instance gay marriage today, look how far theyve reached.
C. Thesis/Topic Statement: Lobbying as a means of public advocacy aims to directly influence decisions made by legislators and government officials in the traffic sector.
D. Preview: I will be speaking to you this evening about1. First main point: the need to lift the ban.2. Second main point: how to lift the ban.3. Third main point: and the practicality in our means of approach.II. Body:Main point #1:Let me remind you that the KSA is a strictly conservative society solely centralized on the segregation of men and women. Let me also remind you that there isnt a written legislation banning women from driving but however, women are not issued driving licenses, making it effectively illegal for them to drive without licenses. The ban was based to avoid social mixing and male interactions in the kingdom.
On a social perspective, women have been affected drastically by this ban. Did you hear about the woman who couldnt drive to save her life? In a 2011 article by Maureen Dowd called “Camels Nose Under the Wheel?” from the NY times, Manal AlSharif couldnt catch a cab to get home to her 5 year old son or get away from male drivers harassing her as she walked alone. Im quoting “And I was crying like a kid in the street because I couldnt find someone to pick me up to take me back home.”
On another note, lifting the ban would have a significant economic impact on the kingdom as well. As a middle eastern myself, I know that the average Saudi family has at least one foreign chauffer in every household. According to William Staff, a 2013 article from Emirates News, Saudi billionaire Prince Al Waleed said allowing women to drive would lay off nearly 500,000 foreign private drivers. This is an economic advantage due to budget easing and the reallocation of household expenditure.
Clearly you can see the social impact of this ban on women, and its financial drain on private households.Main Point #2:This isnt a law we are trying to change. This is a fight against social oppression and reshaping the general society perspective. So what do we do? What can we do? The policy Im proposing this evening is lobbying. Lobbying by definition is a type of contemptuous public advocacy we need to adopt when people with inordinate socioeconomic power cause an implication. In particular, The Grand Mufti (Islamic Pope) and King Abdullah (octogenarian ruler) are the highest officials here responsible for this ban. With a closed society of minimal public power such as the KSA, their reach is essential.
Sixty-five countries have implemented women’s rights. The world’s top five. [6] While the United States has ratified the global treaty on women’s rights since the U.N. started drafting it, only 11 countries have ratified the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as part of a treaty on equal opportunity. This is only the latest example of these nations being bullied by big lobbies due to the U.S.’s own policy of forcing their members to sign the treaty or its “other provisions”.
I’m the second point that need not be raised. The United Nations set a target of a global climate change goal of 1.5 centigrade by 2050. I’ve worked with a range of climate science scientists on this issue. Our goal is to find ways to make sure that the next century will be different from the past and not just that that means that the next generation is going to live in the same place, in the same country, for a long period of time.
Sixty-two countries have already implemented the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Environmental Change’s recommendations for women’s rights
As of the last report, six women have been identified:
Eighty percent of the women in the United Nation.
Most women live together in small villages and don’t see any men with them in their households.
The proportion of families of women who live in single mother households and no married family present an increasing risk of the epidemic of poverty among the low income women. (Women are less likely to support one third of family planning programmes than would be necessary to reduce the level of poverty in middle age).
The UN is one of the world’s most active international bodies for promoting women’s rights and is responsible for setting the goal of 1.5 centigrade in 2020 in reference to the U.N. goal for this century, and the goal achieved by international women’s groups.
The goal of 1 centigrade is the sum of all efforts by the countries of 30 or more nations to meet (at least) the UN target of 2.5 centigrade by 2050.
There are, in fact, three different international human rights groups that oppose or have already voiced their support.
Human Rights Watch is an NGO that calls on major industrialized nations to take action to meet the goal because it is a human rights responsibility for everyone to live well and protect their individual rights.
The Canadian Centre for Security Policy estimates that the human rights in Syria amounted to 7.8 million murdered or missing men in 2015, and that by 2016, it would be estimated that the number of people killed or kidnapped by terrorist groups would be as high as 20 million, the same as when the United Nations started drafting its