- Every 90 second, the world sees one woman die due to pregnancy or labour. Researches have concluded that these casualties are preventable, if they get proper medical attention at the right time. But sadly gender based discrimination is not allowing this to happen.
- As per some researches, violence on women increases during the time of pregnancy.
- Out of total number of refugees and diasporic people, 80% are women. And yet women experience most of the sexual violence and genocide.
- Women are generally not included in Peace Processes. Whereas, including women in formal peace signing team would be highly effective.
- It was in 1920 when in America women gained the right to vote. Which means after so many years of freedom America considered women as their citizens.
- Talking about political presence, we can say that women make up 50% to the world population and yet occupy only 20% of the total parliamentary seats.
- It’s really shocking to know that 16.4 million of women are traced to posses HIV/AIDS. In some regions the ration is 1:5 (1 woman : 5 Men) having HIV/AIDS.
- In the terms of economic stability women are in worst scenario. 70% of the total world population living in Absolute Poverty are women.
- Mostly women are the victims of Human Trafficking across the globe. In some cases it is seen that the family members are the one who sell them.
- Due to sex determination and such acts people find the gender of the foetus and kill them (if the foetus is confirmed to be girl) before they are borne. This results to low female sex ration across the globe.
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