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Papua New Guinea
Sounds like a cool place initially - 848 languages in one tiny area. Until you look at Human Rights.
Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Papua New Guinea is often labelled as potentially the worst place in the world for gender violence.[31][32] A 2013 study in The Lancet found that 41% of men on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, reported having raped a non-partner while 14.1% reported having committed gang rape.[33] According to UNICEF, Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia[34] while a report by ChildFund Australia citing former Parliamentarian Dame Carol Kidu claimed 50% of those seeking medical help after rape are under 16, 25% are under 10 and 10% are under 8.[35]
But...surprisingly it's not in the list of 10 worst countries to be a woman:
10 Worst Countries for Women in The Developing Word
10. Iraq
The US-led invasion to “liberate” Iraq from the hanged Saddam Hussain, imprisoned women in an inferno of sectarian violence that targets women and girls. The literacy rate, once the highest in the Arab world, is now among the lowest...
9. Pakistan
In some tribal areas, women are gang raped as punishment for men’s crimes. But honor killing is more widespread, and a renewed wave of religious extremism is targeting female politicians, human rights workers and lawyers. Last year the country saw around 1000 honor killings of women and girls...
8. India
Domestic violence in India is endemic and widespread predominantly against women. Around 70% of women in India are victims of domestic violence, according to Renuka Chowdhury junior minister for women and child development. National Crime Records Bureau reveal that a crime against a women is committed every three minutes, a women is raped every 29 minutes, a dowry death occurs every 77 minutes and one case of cruelty committed by either the husband or relative of the victim occurs every nine minutes. 50 million girls were killed in the past century in the practice of female infanticide or foeticide; around 100 million women and girls are estimated to be victim of human trafficking; 44.5 percent of girls are married before the age of 18...
7. Somalia
..95 percent of girls face genital mutilation mostly between the ages of 4 and 11; only 7.5 percent of parliament seats are held by women; only 9 percent of women give birth in a health facility...
6. Mali
...few women escape torture of genital mutilation. Many of them are forced into early marriages, and one in ten dies in pregnancy or childbirth....
5. Guatamala
The impoverished female under-class of Guatemala faces domestic violence, rape and the second highest rate of HIV/AIDS after Sub-Saharan Africa.
4. Sudan
...Abduction, rape or forced displacement has destroyed more than one million women’s lives since year 2003.
3. Democratic Republic of Congo
Women in the Congo face especially harsh realities; around 1,100 are raped every day. Since 1996, more than 200,000 rapes have been reported in the country. 57 percent of pregnant women are anaemic; women can not sign legal documents without their husbands’ authorization.
2. Afghanistan
The average Afghan girl will live to only 45 – one year less than an Afghan male. After three decades of war and repression, an overwhelming number of women remain illiterate in Afghanistan. Afghan girls are also discouraged, sometimes fatally, from seeking an education and Afghan rape victims can be forced, by law, to marry their attacker...More than half of all brides are under 16, and one women dies in childbirth every half an hour.
1. Chad
Women in Chad have very few rights. Arranged marriages are still common and often times the girls are around 11 and 12 years old.
Sounds like a cool place initially - 848 languages in one tiny area. Until you look at Human Rights.
Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Papua New Guinea is often labelled as potentially the worst place in the world for gender violence.[31][32] A 2013 study in The Lancet found that 41% of men on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, reported having raped a non-partner while 14.1% reported having committed gang rape.[33] According to UNICEF, Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia[34] while a report by ChildFund Australia citing former Parliamentarian Dame Carol Kidu claimed 50% of those seeking medical help after rape are under 16, 25% are under 10 and 10% are under 8.[35]
But...surprisingly it's not in the list of 10 worst countries to be a woman:
10 Worst Countries for Women in The Developing Word
10. Iraq
The US-led invasion to “liberate” Iraq from the hanged Saddam Hussain, imprisoned women in an inferno of sectarian violence that targets women and girls. The literacy rate, once the highest in the Arab world, is now among the lowest...
9. Pakistan
In some tribal areas, women are gang raped as punishment for men’s crimes. But honor killing is more widespread, and a renewed wave of religious extremism is targeting female politicians, human rights workers and lawyers. Last year the country saw around 1000 honor killings of women and girls...
8. India
Domestic violence in India is endemic and widespread predominantly against women. Around 70% of women in India are victims of domestic violence, according to Renuka Chowdhury junior minister for women and child development. National Crime Records Bureau reveal that a crime against a women is committed every three minutes, a women is raped every 29 minutes, a dowry death occurs every 77 minutes and one case of cruelty committed by either the husband or relative of the victim occurs every nine minutes. 50 million girls were killed in the past century in the practice of female infanticide or foeticide; around 100 million women and girls are estimated to be victim of human trafficking; 44.5 percent of girls are married before the age of 18...
7. Somalia
..95 percent of girls face genital mutilation mostly between the ages of 4 and 11; only 7.5 percent of parliament seats are held by women; only 9 percent of women give birth in a health facility...
6. Mali
...few women escape torture of genital mutilation. Many of them are forced into early marriages, and one in ten dies in pregnancy or childbirth....
5. Guatamala
The impoverished female under-class of Guatemala faces domestic violence, rape and the second highest rate of HIV/AIDS after Sub-Saharan Africa.
4. Sudan
...Abduction, rape or forced displacement has destroyed more than one million women’s lives since year 2003.
3. Democratic Republic of Congo
Women in the Congo face especially harsh realities; around 1,100 are raped every day. Since 1996, more than 200,000 rapes have been reported in the country. 57 percent of pregnant women are anaemic; women can not sign legal documents without their husbands’ authorization.
2. Afghanistan
The average Afghan girl will live to only 45 – one year less than an Afghan male. After three decades of war and repression, an overwhelming number of women remain illiterate in Afghanistan. Afghan girls are also discouraged, sometimes fatally, from seeking an education and Afghan rape victims can be forced, by law, to marry their attacker...More than half of all brides are under 16, and one women dies in childbirth every half an hour.
1. Chad
Women in Chad have very few rights. Arranged marriages are still common and often times the girls are around 11 and 12 years old.