U.S. IN TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRIES FOR WOMEN, REPORT FINDS

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The U.S. has been ranked in the top ten most dangerous countries for women, making it the only western nation to be named among the world’s worst guarantors of female rights and safety.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation surveyed 500 experts to determine where women were most at risk. Countries were ranked by health care, sexual violence, non-sexual violence, cultural practices, discrimination and human trafficking.
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America was ranked joint third with Syria in terms of danger of sexual violence, including rape, sexual harassment, coercion into sex and the lack of access to justice in rape cases. The next worst, in the opinion of those surveyed, was the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For non-sexual violence—including conflict-related violence and forms of domestic physical and mental abuse—the U.S. was ranked sixth. Syria, now in its seventh year of a catastrophic civil war, was ranked third overall.

[link:http://www.newsweek.com/us-top-10-most-dangerous-countries-women-report-995229|

Not a top ten place you want....

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Also, not a real surprise. n/t

[RKP5637]

2. Not surprised. There is so much hatred in America about everything. It's an uncomfortable

country to live in. Shootings, hatred, a looney toon government, a president off his rocker ... on and on. Not surprised at all. It's a very uncomfortable place. I would never vacation, for example, in America.