Which are the world's 10 most dangerous countries for women? US #10, only western country on list

[niyad]

Which are the world's 10 most dangerous countries for women?



LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India was named as the world’s most dangerous country for women in a survey of global experts released on Tuesday.
Seven years ago a Thomson Reuters Foundation experts' survey found the five most dangerous countries for women were seen to be Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India, and Somalia. This year we set out to see if the situation had changed. We wanted to find out whether more was being done to address the overall risks faced by women, and specifically regarding healthcare, access to economic resources, customary practices, sexual violence, non-sexual violence and human trafficking. We expanded our poll to the 10 most dangerous countries with some surprising results.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about 550 experts on women’s issues ranked war-torn Afghanistan and Syria in second and third place, with Somalia and Saudi Arabia next. The survey was a repeat of a similar poll in 2011 which ranked the most dangerous countries for women as Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia. It asked which five of the 193 United Nations member states were most dangerous for women and the worst for healthcare, economic resources, traditional practices, sexual and non-sexual abuse, and human trafficking.



Here is the list of the 10 countries ranked as the most dangerous for women by the survey, conducted between March 26 and May 4:

1. INDIA - Tops the list, with levels of violence against women still running high, more than five years after the rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi sparked national outrage and government pledges to tackle the issue.

India ranked as the most dangerous on three issues – the risks women face from sexual violence and harassment, from cultural and traditional practices, and from human trafficking including forced labor, sex slavery and domestic servitude.

2. AFGHANISTAN - Second in the list, with experts saying women face dire problems nearly 17 years after the overthrow of the Taliban.
l violence, which includes conflict-related violence as well as domestic abuse. Joint third with the United States on the risks women face of sexual abuse.

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10. UNITED STATES - The only Western nation in the top 10 and joint third with Syria for the risks women face in terms of sexual violence, including rape, sexual harassment, coercion into sex and a lack of access to justice in rape cases. The survey came after the #MeToo campaign went viral last year, with thousands of women using the social media movement to share stories of sexual harassment or abuse.


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-dangerous-poll-factbox/factbox-which-are-the-worlds-10-most-dangerous-countries-for-women-idUSKBN1JM01Z

[Sanity Claws]

1. I'd like to know how this was measured.

I thought China might be on it. Female infanticide has been practiced for decades, particularly due to the one-child rule. As a result, there is a severe imbalance in genders. According to news stories, perhaps sensationalized, this has resulted in rape and kidnapping of young women.

[mercuryblues]

2. Yet repupublicans

plan on voting against the Violence against women act. Over 1,000 women are killed each year by DV. about 55% of them with guns. Over 4 million women have admitted to having a gun pulled on them during a relationship.

85% of the victims of DV are women and 15% men.
Intimate partner homicide is the cause for 50% of premature deaths of women each year. For men it is 5.9%

Now America has made the list of 10 most dangerous countries for women.



https://www.democraticunderground.com/113811664

[OregonBlue]

3. I think this is very wrong. Countries like South Africa and Brazil

are much more dangerous for women as far as rape and murder. Wasn't it just in the last few years that they changed Brazilian law so that it was illegal to kill your wife?

[niyad]

4. did you read the list?

[OregonBlue]

5. I read the top 10 which included the US. Neither Brazil or South Africa was in the top ten. I think

It's b.s.