Feminine Health
Is this statement True or False:
The Taliban forces women to stay in their homes.
True.
Members of this organization confine by force their wives and daughters.
"How can the world learn to live with the Taliban’s abuses- Afghan women being largely confined to their homes, losing their voice, their personhood, their education, their dreams, and contributions to their communities." Human Rights Watch
Is this statement True or False:
Women in Iceland claim that they live in the only country where Gender Equality has been truly solved.
False.
Although Iceland has made immense progress when it comes to Women's Rights and has been proclaimed as the most egalitarian country for women, women have still less rights than men and are willing to fight for that equality.
"Women in Iceland, long seen as the world’s most equal country, recently went on strike, protesting stalled progress toward gender equality." Human Rights Watch
In the Middle East and North African countries, women are _____ times more likely to be illiterate than men.
A) 1.5
B) men and women have the same illiteracy struggles.
C) 2
D) men are 2 times more likely to be illiterate.
C) 2
In the Middle East, women are twice as likely to be illiterate than men. They are commonly forced out of school before the age of 18 to marry.
"Women in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries are twice as likely to be illiterate as men are and make up two-thirds of the region’s illiterate adults. The gender gaps in education vary greatly across countries in the region but are generally wider in countries where overall literacy and school enrollment are lower. In Yemen, for example, the illiteracy rate among young women (54 percent) is triple that of young men (17 percent)."
From the Population Reference Bureau.
How many girls (under the age of 18) experience forms of sexual violence on a global scale.
A) 35% (1 out of 3)
B) less than 5% (1 out of 20)
C)10% (1 out of 10)
D) 20% (1 out of 5)
D) 20% (1 out of 5)
Indeed, one out of five girls get abused worldwide. Whether this abuse is physical, sexual, online, mental or verbal, we need to WAKE UP.
“More than 370 million girls and women alive today – or 1 in 8 – experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, […] When ‘non-contact’ forms of sexual violence, such as online or verbal abuse are included, the number of girls and women affected rises to 650 million globally – or 1 in 5. ” UNICEF
Which of these Central and South American countries have banned abortion?
1. Cuba 2. Chile 3. Argentina 4. Nicaragua
A) 1 and 3
B) 3 and 4
C) 2 and 4
D) All of them
C) 2 and 4
South American countries have majorly banned abortion which gives women no choice but to get an unsafe abortion or forcibly pursue their pregnancy.
"Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Republica Dominicana criminalize all sorts of abortion, even in case of rape or when the woman's life or health is at risk.” Ciência & Saúde Coletiva