Worst Places in the World to be a Woman

Women around the world face grave challenges like: rape, infanticide, female genital mutilation, and sex trafficking. This month the Thomson Reuters Foundation released a survey listing the five worst countries in the world to be a woman. The survey ranked each country by six factors: health, discrimination and lack of access to resources, cultural and religious practices, sexual violence, human trafficking, and conflict-related violence. The results showed that Afghanistan was the worst place in the world to be a woman followed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, India, and Somalia in decreasing order.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/15/worst-place-women-afghanistan-india

http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2011/06/21/worst-places-in-the-world-to-be-a-woman/