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Mon Jul 16, 2018, 01:39 PM Jul 2018

India, DRC, US among most dangerous countries for women: poll


India, DRC, US among most dangerous countries for women: poll

Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria also top list in Thomson Reuters Foundation survey.



Internally displaced women and children in a camp in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo [File: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]
Correction 26/06/2018: This article has been corrected to say the survey was done by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, not the Thomas Reuters Foundation as previously stated.
Most dangerous countries for women

India
Afghanistan
Syria
Somalia
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan
DRC
Yemen
Nigeria
United States

India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the US are among the top 10 most dangerous countries for women, according to a new poll by Thomson Reuters Foundation. The organisation surveyed nearly 550 experts focused on women's issues, asking them to rank countries based on a number of key issues, including access to healthcare, prevalence of sexual abuse and discrimination.

The experts ranked India as the most dangerous country for women.

"The world's second most populous nation, with 1.3 billion people, ranked as the most dangerous on three of the topic questions - the risk of sexual violence and harassment against women, the danger women face from cultural, tribal and traditional practices, and the country where women are most in danger of human trafficking including forced labour, sex slavery and domestic servitude," the findings said. The report specifically pointed to the 2012 gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student. The rape of Singh caused widespread protests and drew international attention over violence against women.


Indian girls take a pledge to act towards stopping atrocity on women [File: Ajit Solanki/AP Photo]
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#MeToo

The United States was listed as the 10th most dangerous country for women, ranking third on the question of sexual violence and sixth on the issue of non-sexual violence. Thomson Reuters Foundation pointed out that the survey was conducted after the #MeToo movement went viral last year after several women accused prominent Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse.


#MeToo has since grown into a global movement against sexual violence against women, with many exposing the prevalence of sexual harassment and abuse in the workspace worldwide.
Almost one in five women have been raped, and more than one in three experienced rape, violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the US, according to 2010 statistics by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


People participate in a protest march for survivors of sexual assault and their supporters in Hollywood [File: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters]

It is worth noting that no Latin American country topped the list, despite many countries having high rates of femicide and 49 countries having no laws to protect women from domestic violence, according to UN Women. Some including, Cindy Southworth, executive vice president at the National Network to End Domestic Violence, said that media coverage of #MeToo in the US may have attributed to this. "People watch the US," she told Reuters news agency. "They watch our elections. They watch our media coverage. They watch our celebrity violence against women cases. "The perception is understandable, but not based on reality."

Globally, it is estimated that one in three women experience physical or sexual violence during her lifetime, and nearly 750 million women and girls married before their 18th birthday. (see the work of One Billion Rising (one in three).

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/india-drc-dangerous-countries-women-poll-180626101304021.html
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