Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Women's Rights: Statistics Part 2


>Today, 200 million women in 30 different countries have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, the partial or total removal of external female genitalia. Of the 200 million, more than half live in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Indonesia.


>There are over 60 million child brides worldwide that were married before the age of 18, primarily found in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
>1 in 3 women are married before the age of 18, 1 in 9 married before the age of 15.

>It doesn't only happen overseas: Between 2010 and 2015, an estimated 207,000 minors in America, the majority girls, married before the age of 18.
>Child marriage strips a girl of her right to a childhood and an education. As well, girls married before the age of 18 are at greater risk of intimate partner violence than girls of same age who marry later in life. 

Femicide: the homicide of women
>35% of femicides are carried out by an intimate partner, compared to 5% of male homicides.
>5000 ‘honor’ killings–– murder in order to maintain a family image, often due to an act of adultery or pregnancy outside of wedlock–– are carried out each year.
>Dowry related femicides are specific to India, where brides are killed by in-laws due to insufficient dowry payment. Some sources estimate that up to 25,000 dowry-related femicides are carried out each year.
>Non-intimate femicide also terrorizes many women around the world, particularly in Latin America.


Sources: 

Unicef
World Health Organization (WHO)
The Economist

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