7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World
July 27, 2008
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
July 26, 2008
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
July 25, 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:
March 8th is International Women’s Day
March 8, 2007
Women nurture, lead, provide, and shape the world in irreplaceable ways. Yet a girl born today in a poor community joins the world’s largest group to be denied basic needs and human rights — women.
What are the millennium development goals?
July 29, 2006
According to Kofi Annan “The Millennium Development Goals were adopted five years ago by all the world’s governments as a blueprint for building a better world in the 21st century.”
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