Between Human Rights and Insecurity: An Exploration of Ahmed Yerima's PARI
On 25 September, 2015, world leaders gathered to adopt the 2030 (SDG's) agenda aimed sustainable at achieving development equality and its for 17 sustainable all humans goals by eradicating poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity. Goal 5 according to Victor Dugga, states 'Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls'(9), however, this is feasible if the environment is safe for our womenfolk to thrive. The attainment of gender equality is not only seen as an end itself and a human right issue but is a prerequisite for the achievement of sustainable development. In times of crises, conflict or war, women and children have always been the worst hit. The men die or are injured and go into oblivion, however the woman lives with the scars, trauma if she ever recovers, becomes a walking shadow of herself. One of the key elements of confronting victims of rape and torture, opines Roberta Culbertson in Rosemary Jolly, is that once the victimsurvivor has experienced the violent truncation of her ability to control what happened to her body, then the sovereignty of the notion that this will never happen to one again is impossible to resurrect (29). This paper adopts the content analysis by appraising the play Pari by Ahmed Yerima, it is anchored on the feminism theory and criticism. The researcher aims to reflect the trauma of rape victims and recommend that there is the need to implement fully the human rights laws that protects the girls and women during conflict.
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