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China
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Due to the one child policy over 13 million abortions occurred annually or about 1,500 every hour on average.
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One of the biggest issues facing Chinese women is Reproductive Justice. The punishment for violating the “one child” policy is a blatant denial of human rights. This page honors some of the women human rights defenders in China.
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India | Over the last three years, there were over 24,000 reported dowry deaths in India.
Dowry deaths are deaths of women who are murdered or driven to suicide by continuous harassment and torture by husbands and in-laws in an effort to extort an increased dowry.This includes rape, bride burning, eve teasing, and acid throwing.
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Indonesia
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Over 90% of rape cases go unreported in Indonesia - 2016
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http://news.trust.org/item/20160725143529-udc98
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Pakistan
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In 2007 the first and only prime minister of Pakistan,Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at a political rally.
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http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/06/05/the-prime-ministers-office-a-timeline/
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Bangladesh
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85% of Bangladeshi Garment workers are women who get £45 a month
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https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-09-16/most-bangladeshi-garment-workers-are-women-their-union-leaders-werent-until-now
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Japan
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The ideal woman in Japan has largely been fantasized as a Yamato Nadeshiko. The media in Japan shows a dichotomy of what this ideal is. On one hand it is the loving housewife who takes care of the children and does the housework, but on the opposite hand it is the beautiful, smart, youthful girl.
School gurl culture (utube)
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https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/posts/japanese-sexism-and-the-ideal-woman
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Philippines
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In the Philippines about 10-15 percent of every 1,000 students (10 out of 100) resort to prostitution. (100/1000)
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/96605/students-by-day-sex-workers-by-night
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vietnam
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Children of the enemy, bui doi
During that conflict, it's thought about 100,000 children were born from relationships between local women and American soldiers.
After the vietnam war only 3% of Americasians found there fathers
In the spring of 1975, U.S. forces withdrew from Vietnam, leaving behind an estimated 50,000 children they'd fathered with Vietnamese women.
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http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/news/a498/children-war-1/
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iran
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Today, Iran is still an Islamic Republic. Women are severely restricted by the law – they must cover their heads in public, they cannot travel internationally without their husbands’ permission and their husbands have the right to stop them working if they think their job ‘damages their dignity’.
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turkey
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Leader of the AKP, he was elected as prime minister in 2002 and last year became the country's first elected president. He has called violence against women "a bleeding wound of Turkey", and vowed to launch a new campaign against it. But he has also said that women are not equal to men.
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https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-07-19/women-are-being-silenced-turkeys-crackdown
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in 2011 the Thai state appointed Yingluck Shinawatra as the first female and 28th Prime Minister. Yingluck Shinawatra won by the majority vote of 265 of 500 parliament seats (52% of the votes)
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myanmar
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In Myanmar women occupied only 13 per cent of all seats (elected and appointed) in the Union Parliament
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https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/sharing-untold-stories-women-myanmar/
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One feminist group (link in Korean), RPO, which stands for “revenge-porn out,” dedicates itself to taking down websites that host content such as upskirt photos, secretly filmed video tapes taken by men of women, and even live rape videos, according to Yena, (not her real name), a member of RPO at a recent gathering of feminists in the city of Asan, just south of Seoul.
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iraq
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Yezidi women
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exhibition
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Afganistan is under Taliban rule were women are stripped of all human rights - their work, visibility, opportunity for education, voice, healthcare, and mobility. When they took control in 1996, the Taliban initially imposed strict edicts that:
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In Saudi Arabia although the religious committee also banned the practice of forced marriages in 2005, the contract between the bride and the bride's father must be compulsory. At the same time, it is considered that the girl is suitable for marriage from the age of 9, the boy - from 15.
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In Malaysia young female rape survivors are sometimes pressured into marrying their abusers as a way of mitigating gross sexual abuses.
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Uzbekistan human rights defenders focus on include unlawful detention of protesters by the government, and forced sterilization. Hundreds of women have been sterilized without their consent or knowledge in Uzbekistan, leaving many women fearful of doctors and hospital
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77 percent of the episodes of violence against women are reported as being from within the family.
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22 percent of women aged 15 to 49 have experienced physical violence at least once since age 15.
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43 percent of women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Between 5,000 and 12,000 girls and women are trafficked every year. 75 percent of them are below 18 years of age and the majority are sold into forced prostitution.
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Yemen has a tribal culture, and the marriage of young girls is common; most Yemeni girls are married before they reach puberty. A proposed law setting a minimum age for marriage of 17 for women was opposed by conservative Yemenis, including women
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while 73% of boys were enrolled in primary school in rural areas, only 30% of girls enrolled.
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it was estimated that only 30% of the Yemeni female population was literate.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Yemen
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North korea
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“In North Korea,Out of 120 soldiers in my unit, there were only 20 men, but they were all high-ranking officers. I was in the 1st squad, but a couple of squad leaders in the 2nd squad raped every single one of the low-ranking female soldiers.”
im Jong-un's secret "Pleasure Squad" includes schoolgirls as young as 13, it has been claimed.
In 2013, Leader Kim Jong-Un had his Ex-Girlfriend executed in front of her family for making a sex tape.
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http://newfocusintl.com/life-women-north-korean-army/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10837897/Executed-Kim-Jong-Un-girlfriend-reappears-on-North-Korea-television.html
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Srilanka - The unemployment rate for women in Sri Lanka was 13% in 2012, which was six times higher than that of males
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Honor killings take place in Syria in situations where women are deemed to have brought shame to the family, affecting the family's 'reputation' in the community. Some estimates suggest that more than 200 honor killings occur every year in Syria.
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The conflict in Syria has led to an increase in child marriages. The harsh living conditions, the insecurity, and the fear of rape, have led families to force their daughters into early marriages.
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Forced marriage and bride kidnapping are problems with which women and girls are confronted in Kazakhstan, although their exact prevalence is not known. In Kazakhstan, bride kidnappingis divided into non-consensual and consensual abductions.Some kidnappers are motivated by the wish to avoid paying a bride price.
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The maternal mortality rate in Kazakhstan is 12 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 estimate).The total fertility rate is 2.31 children born/woman (as of 2015),which is slightly above the replacement rate. The contraceptive prevalence rate is 51% (2010/11)
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cambodia
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Mum sells daughters virginity
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https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/kh2004_women-en.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/28/cambodia-breast-milk-us-export-ambrosia-labs
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40% of Azerbaijanis surveyed in 2012 still believed that agree that women should tolerate domestic violence in order to keep their family together, and 22% agreed that there are times when a woman deserves to be beaten.
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Women only had the right to vote in 2006 u.a.e
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http://womensuffrage.org/?page_id=95%20or%20Votes
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Tajikistan
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Women suffer disproportionately from this poverty. For every 100,000 live births, 65 women die from pregnancy-related causes; the adolescent birth rate is 42.8 per 1000 live births. The highest risk of poverty occurs in households headed by women, the uneducated heads or with many children.
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only 19 per cent (12 of 63) legislators are women and only two parliamentary committees and only one ministry are headed by women.
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jordan
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Only 16 percent of Jordanian women participate in the economy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/23/jordan-election-women-gain-ground-gender-gap
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Laos: Women in labour force 76.5
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Kyrgyzstan
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Bride kidnapping
Although child and forced marriage are illegal in Kyrgyzstan, an estimated 12 percent of girls marry before age 18.
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https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/21/kyrgyzstan-ups-fight-against-child-marriage
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Lebanese women have legal protection that varies depending on their religion.In Muslim families, marriageable age can be as young as 9 for women and polygamy is allowed.
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The study reflected that 18% of the Singaporean women interviewed are "most likely to initiate" sexual
In 2013, Singapore only had 8.3 per cent of SGX (Singapore Exchange Limited)-
Of women in listed companies on their boards.
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/rights-for-women-were/3078640.html
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Turkmenistan
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https://pulsofcentralasia.org/2015/02/05/turkmenistan-womens-role-in-turkmen-society-and-its-traditional-mindset/
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state of palestine
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In Oman the College of Engineering at Qaboos University banned the entrance of female students, claiming that the "outdoor setting" of engineering field work was not gender appropriate.
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Kuwait
Women have the right to vote
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4552749.stm
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According to the Caucasus Research Resource Centres, when asked who should be the main breadwinner in the family, 83% of Georgians said the man.
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mongolia
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/augusta-thomson/mongolia-a-land-of-strong_b_5691799.html
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Sex selective abortion is reported as being a problem in the country, due to patriarchal social norms which consider having a son preferable to having a daughter.
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Sex selective abortion is reported as being a problem in the country, due to patriarchal social norms which consider having a son preferable to having a daughter.
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qatar
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https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/country-chapters/qatar
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Cunning rapists in Bahrain can avoid victimising virgins so they could escape the maximum penalty provided by law, and those who force themselves on young girls can evade punishment by promising to marry their victims.
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http://www.ipsnews.net/2010/03/rights-bahrain-weak-laws-let-rapists-off-the-hook/
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In East Timor, 71% of men believe that the wife's neglecting children justifies the husband's beating her, while 72% of women believe that a husband is justified in beating his wife if she goes out without informing him.[4]
(p.57) https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/institutional-document/84126/timor-leste-country-gender-assessment.pdf
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https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/institutional-document/84126/timor-leste-country-gender-assessment.pdf
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During the period 2010—2012, it is estimated that there were 129 victims of human trafficking in Cyprus, of which 84 % were women and girls.
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http://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/mh0116746enn.pdf
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In Bhutan,2 in 100 women are likely to be sexually abused before the age of 15
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http://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/bhutanese-woman-attacked-in-broad-daylight-in-alappuzhaalappuzha-1.1632212
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it explicitly states that sexual intercourse by a man with his wife, as long as she is not under 13 years of age, is not rape.
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One in three women in the Maldives report experiencing sexual or physical violence in their lifetimes; one in five say the perpetrator was their intimate partner.
A 15-year-old female victim was sentenced to 100 lashes in the Maldives as a result of her step-father raping her.
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Country or territory GDP nominal millions of USD GDP nominal per capita USD GDP PPP millions of USD GDP PPP per capita USD Location Afghanistan 17,275 528 64,198 1,961 South Asia Armenia 10,774 3,602 26,053 8,712 West Asia Azerbaijan 35,141 3,701 165,988 17,486 West Asia Bahrain 30,079 22,798 66,851 50,667 West Asia Bangladesh 226,760 1,466 628,376 3,940 South Asia Bhutan 2,209 2,836 6,384 8,196 South Asia Brunei 11,634 27,759 32,986 78,475 Southeast Asia Myanmar 65,775 1,268 267,736 5,164 Southeast Asia Cambodia 17,714 1,139 54,174 3,485 Southeast Asia China (PRC) 11,384,763 8,280 19,509,983 14,189 East Asia India 2,182,577 1,688 8,027,031 6,209 South Asia Indonesia 936,955 3,620 3,010,746 11,633 Southeast Asia Iran 396,915 5,047 1,381,672 17,571 West Asia Iraq 165,057 4,694 531,393 15,112 West Asia Israel 298,866 35,702 281,757 33,658 West Asia ...
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