Friday 25 October 2013

World's 10 worst countries for women

1. Chad: Women in Chad, Africa, are forced to marry at an early age of 11 or 12..............

2. Afghanistan: A country with highest maternal mortality rate, one woman dies in childbirth every half an hour............

3. Democratic Republic of Congo: Women in the Congo face especially harsh realities; around 1,100 are raped every day............

4. Sudan: Abduction, rape or forced displacement has destroyed more than one million women’s lives since year 2003.....

5. Guatemala: The impoverished female under-class of Guatemala in Latin America faces domestic violence, rape and the second highest rate of HIV/AIDS after Sub-Saharan Africa.....

6. Mali: One of the poorest countries of the world, there are no laws against female genital mutilation in this African country.

Forced early marriages have caused deaths due to pregnancy.....

7. Somalia: These factors have made living in what was already one of the most dangerous areas on the planet even harsher for women. ....

8. India: One woman dies every hour in India because of dowry-related crimes, indicating that the country's economic boom has made demands for dowries even more persistent.

The National Crime Records Bureau says 8,233 women were killed across India last year because of disputes over dowry payments given by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.

NCRB records reveal that a crime against women is committed every three minutes, women is raped every 29 minutes.

50 million girls were killed in the past century in the practice of female infanticide or foeticide; around 100 million women and girls are estimated to be victim of human trafficking; 44.5 percent of girls are married before the age of 18...........

9. Pakistan: An estimated 5,000 women are killed per year due to domestic violence. Selling women, acid attacks, honour killings are common in this Islamic country.......

10. Iraq: The US-led invasion to “liberate” Iraq from tyrant Saddam Hussain has led to women caught in the inferno of sectarian violence.

The female literacy rate, once the highest in the Arab world, is now among the lowest..

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