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Professor Wangari Maathai, winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2004.
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WHY WE FOCUS ON WOMEN - THE PROOF


Statistics are a powerful and shocking tool for grasping the scale of the denial of women’s human rights, and the extent to which so many women are expected to be 'seen and not heard'.

Violence against women

‘One out of every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused’
One in five women will become a victim of rape or attempted rape’

You can find more statistics relating to violence against women below.

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Women at home

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 Women’s health

‘In developing countries, a woman dies of pregnancy-related causes every minute’

 

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The plight of girls

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Education

Two thirds of the 137 million illiterate young people in the world are women and, in the case of Afghanistan, there are just 36 literate young women for every 100 young men. (UNFPA, 36 State of the World Population 2005, Gender Equality Fact Sheet) (accessed on 26/11/09);

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Women and poverty

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Women and power

‘While women’s representation in Rwanda is 49%, 10 countries have no women in parliament’

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