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Women are discriminated against in almost every country around the world, a UN-commissioned report says.

It says that this is despite the fact that 185 UN member states pledged to outlaw laws favouring men by 2005.

It adds that 70% of the world's poor are women and they own just 1% of the world's titled land.

The report, which was prepared for UN Human Right Commissioner Louise Arbour, says rape within marriage has still not been made a crime in 53 nations.

"Many states still have different ages of marriage for young women than they have for young men, and the age for girls is always lower then the age for boys.

"This leads to violations, for example of a girls' right education, if she has to leave school at 14 to get married, and this impacts upon her life chances.

"It ends up being a life-long violation of her rights in terms of forfeiting education, having children too early, possibly being damaged herself."
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1 response // Women face bias worldwide

  • What's interesting is how very little coverage it gets world-wide. Women's rights are violated on the most basic levels in many undeveloped countries. Male dominated media sustains the violence against women world wide by giving it very little exposure.
    andromeda

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