Women’s Rights Around the World

Despite decades of progress, the rights of women are recovering around the world. Brave women, girls, and transgender work hard to stick to this path

Violence against women, girls and transgender people is still one of the most serious human rights violations in the world. This has nothing to do with wherever women live, no matter how much they earn. In fact, one in three women has been physically or sexually abused in their lifetime.

Girls are not just girls. More than 15 million girls get married before 18 years old each year. If they can go to school they are forced to drop out of school. They are robbed of the basic medical level. They will bear the burden of unpaid work. To make matters worse, because they are not boys, they often abort in the womb.

Women and transgender * human rights defenders are concerned about their lives. They are shot at their house, beaten by law enforcement officers, and may simply be threatened on the street to defend their rights.

It is illegal to become homosexual in 77 countries around the world. In five of these countries, LGBT people may be sentenced to death.

Some countries have been arrested for car driving, participation in sports events, abortion, wearing trousers, and / or abusive marriage. Do not believe us?

But women who can find the best candidate to solve these problems, transgender do not have the money to do so. Organizations led by them are usually operated at less than $ 20,000 per year and people do not understand why their activities are so brave and important.

While reviewing these major breakthroughs about women's rights around the world, we are determined not to retreat, but to build on these benefits. We must learn from the elasticity of women's movements around the world, play a role of gender equality, and stand up in the face of harassment, hatred, and retreat. Let's continue to cooperate to strengthen the prosperous, unified, fearless women's movement - so by the end of 2018 we have more to celebrate.

Women and men from all over the world are involved in women's rights, equality and justice movement that has never been before. From a global parade to a social media event like # MeToo, the woman unanimously said, unanimously, seeking sexual harassment, organizing unequal salaries, and expressing women's political representation. Jaha Dukureh, an activist and the latest African region goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, leads a campaign to end women's genital excision (FGM) and child marriage. She started fighting with her marriage when she was under ten years of age. She must steal into a local television station and be forced to talk about girls in the community.

Approximately 140 million girls and women worldwide are suffering from female genitomy and about 3 million girls are affected in Africa every year. This is an infringement of human rights, whether it is the direct result of surgery or the life of all girls, it will bring a series of health risks. Female genitomy is a dangerous process that can lead to lifelong health problems. But this is a traditional thing, girls get married and can be accepted in the village.

Female genital resection (called FGM) is a partial or complete removal of female genitomy 11. More than 130 million girls and women live as a result of female genital resection worldwide, and 30 million people face female genitomy. Risk for the Next 10 Years This practice is carried out in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East, but it also affects women in other parts of the world 11. These procedures are considered sexual violence as they are harmful to physical and emotional girls and women. Survivors often do not agree with this practice. In the most extreme cases, the entire girl's external genitalia is removed and the wound is sutured with thorns and strings. Then the wound will heal and form the "ruins" of nursery rhymes.