7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World

For most of us in the West, the biggest troubles in our lives are petrol prices, long working hours, and increasing food costs. For many women in the world, these are the least of their concerns. Terrible atrocities are committed against untold numbers of women around the world every day and for most of these women, justice will never be served. This is a list of the worst of the atrocities. In no particular order:
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Gender equality

We need to be concerned about gender inequality because the majority of the world’s poor are women: around 70 per cent of the 1.3 billion people who live in extreme poverty, on less than one dollar a day, are women and girls. Gender discrimination, or the denial of women’s basic human rights, is also a major cause of poverty. Men and women experience many aspects of poverty differently and ignoring these differences risks further entrenching poverty and the subordination of women.
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Stop Female foeticide campaign-The Aadhar Association,Cannes winner,2008

In India, every year 1.1 million unborn baby girls die before they are born. A disturbing print ad to raise awareness of female foeticide from Contract Advertising Mumbai:

How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours

ABC news has an excellent story about child slavery. Link to the article here complete with compelling video footage, or for convenience the entire article is copied below:
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