India. No Country for Women.

According to a survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2018 (the first one was carried out in 2011), India is the most dangerous country in the world for women, followed by Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. Between 2007 and 2016, crime against women rose 83% in India alone. In 2016 - again, in India alone - 40.000 rapes were reported. 70% of sexual harassment victims do not report their cases. Girls are molested in school, women raped by taxi drivers, teens trafficked and sold to brothels (via).



The key areas of the poll were healthcare, discrimination, cultural traditions, sexual violence, non-sexual violence and human trafficking. Cultural traditions comprise acid attacks, female genital mutilation, child, marriage, forced marriage, stoning, physical abuse and mutilation to punish, and female infanticide. Discrimination includes job discrimination, inability to make a livelihood, discriminatory land-property-inheritance rights, lack of access to education and to adequate nutrition. (via). At least 20 million women (i.e. the population of London, Paris and New York) have left the workforce for reasons such as sexual harassment. Only 27% work (via).

The full report: Thomson Reuters Foundation

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photograph "Woman and a goat" by William Gedney, India, 1970 via