http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP4VeMJp9pE&feature=watch_response#t=4m45s
Stoning women in Saudi Arabia - horrific,!!
A man getting his dick chopped off - fabulous!!
Waking up yet, men?
• Of the 1.3 billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide, more than two-thirds of them are women and girls.
• Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, and produce half of the world’s food, yet earn only 10 per cent of the world’s income, and own less than one per cent of the world’s property.
• Two-thirds of all children denied school are girls, and 75 per cent of the world’s 876 million illiterate adults are women
• Women hold only 14 per cent of the world’s parliamentary seats.
• Gender-based violence kills one in three women across the world.
• Gender-based violence is the biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide, causing more deaths and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war.
• As a result of violence and neglect, there are 50 million fewer women in South Asia today than there should be.
• Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, and produce half of the world’s food, yet earn only 10 percent of the world’s income, and own less than one per cent of the world’s property.
• Two-thirds of children denied primary education are girls, and 75 percent of the world’s 876 million illiterate adults are women.
• Every extra year a girl spends at school could reduce child mortality by ten percent.
• More than half a million women die in pregnancy and childbirth every year: of these deaths, 99 percent are in developing countries. In parts of Africa, maternal mortality rates are 1 in 16.
• Women hold only 14 percent of parliamentary seats worldwide, and only 8 percent of the world’s cabinet ministers are women.
• Only eleven countries have met the UN target of 30 percent female decision-makers.
• In New Zealand, 20 percent of women will be physically abused by a male partner and one in five women will be a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.
• In Samoa, 46 percent of women have been abused by their partner
• In Fiji 41 percent of women who experienced violence reported being hit while pregnant.
Sources: OXFAM, UN, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO
