Most dangerous countries for women
June 15th 2011 18:52
Violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty make Afghanistan the world's most dangerous country for women, with Congo a close second due to horrific levels of rape, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll.
Mukhtaran Mai gives an interview at a school in Meerwala, located in the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan's central Punjab province April 22, 2011. Mai, a Pakistani victim of a village council-sanctioned gang-rape, who became a symbol of the country's oppressed women, said on Thursday her life was in danger after the Supreme Court acquitted 13 men accused of the crime. Mai was attacked on the orders of a village council in 2002 as a punishment because her brother - who was 12 at the time - was judged to have offended the honor of a powerful clan by allegedly having an affair with one of its women.
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So sad!
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