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I have a feeling you did not watch the video. The video features a very active women's right activist. She is a woman. She clearly cites the statistics: Two British women are killed after being raped every week in UK by their partners (husband, boyfriend, etc.). How can you narrow that definition any further? Please enlighten me.
As far as Sweden is concerned, I agree that rape there is not even remotely as big of a problem as it is in the UK. Keep in mind, Sweden was voted among top 5 feminist countries in the world if my memory is correct. Also, women are very well represented in every walks of life in Sweden. That is not the case with UK. You do not have to take my word for it. Listen to those British girls themselves. One of them is a major women's rights activist and another one is a female politician.
I think you missed my point - how does Britain compare to other countries in regards to rape? How it's defined, reported and prosecuted makes a difference in the statistics. Sweden has one of the highest records but - it's misleading: BBC News - Sweden s rape rate under the spotlight
Is Britain that sexist?
In this report on closing the gender gap, the top 25 countries for women are listed (measured by "Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival and Political Empowerment") out 110 participating countries. The results are interesting - surprising and not surprising. 1-4 are Scandinavian: Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden. 5th is Phillipines and 6th Ireland. UK is 18th, with Canada at 20th and the US at 23rd. So considering that - are women there doing so badly?
In this report, Britain came out in top 5 for the best G20 countries to be a woman: FACTBOX-The worst and best G20 countries for women
TrustLaw asked aid professionals, academics, health workers, policymakers, journalists and development specialists with expertise in gender issues to rank the 19 countries of the G20 in terms of the overall best and worst to be a woman.
They also ranked countries in six categories: quality of health, freedom from violence, participation in politics, work place opportunities, access to resources such as education and property rights and freedom from trafficking and slavery.
What they say about Britain is:
3. UNITED KINGDOM
“While most women in the UK benefit from access to free healthcare and have opportunities in business and politics, government spending cuts have impacted disproportionately on women while violence against women remains a serious problem, giving the lie to the belief that equality has been achieved within our borders.”
- Vivienne Hayes, chief executive, Women’s Resource Centre
Key facts:
*22.3% of judges are female – House of Lords Constitution Committee (2011)
*17% of ministerial positions held by women – Hansard Society (2012)
*18.6% is the gender pay gap – Office for National Statistics (2011)
They do say what you do though, that violence against women remains a serious problem.
I understood what you said the very first time. It is you who is missing the point. Every week two British women are raped and killed by their partners. By which definition will this be a trivial crime? This is what you need to answer.
I never said it was a trivial crime, but you seem to be trying to make it out that Britain is some sort of rape capital.
That is your conclusion.
However as far as rape index is concerned, on a per capita basis, UK ranks number one in the Europe and among top 5 in the world. Yesterday or so, there was another violent rape in which a woman was almost killed. Read below for detail. This kind of rape in which a woman ends up dead - two of them happen every week in the UK. That is a pretty high number for a country of population less than 90-million.
Do you have a source for that? I had not seen anything to that affect.
Leeds police have seized CCTV footage that shows a rape victim being dragged from a bus stop, beaten “many times” over the head with a blunt object, sexually assaulted and left for dead.
The 18-year-old victim miraculously survived the sustained attack, which police are now treating as attempted murder.
Officers are choosing not to release the footage, which they say “clearly shows the very disturbing circumstances of the offence”, though not in sufficient quality to identify the perpetrator.
“The victim is seen being carried away a short distance while struggling against her attacker who takes her into a nearby garden,” said West Yorkshire Police’s Detective Superintendent Nick Wallen.
“He can then be seen striking her over the head numerous times with a blunt object that we believe to have been a large stone.”
Det Supt Wallen said the traumatised victim was bravely helping to put together a picture of what the suspect looked like from her hospital bed.
“Her injuries are serious but thankfully not life threatening and she has been left very badly traumatised by the ordeal,” he said.
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Leeds bus stop rape Very disturbing CCTV footage shows victim beaten over the head with rock many times - Crime - UK - The Independent
Brutal rapes occur throughout the world and every single instance is horrific...whether it's UK or anywhere.
Go to this link. This is a link from the UN. Scroll down to CTS 2012 Sexual Violence. Click on it. This will download an excel file. You can see where UK ranks. It looks like Germany and UK are on a tie in Europe. On the world level, I think U.S. tops the chart. UK it looks like is third on the world level.
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