Cultural Prisions around the World

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According to the World Health Organization, violence causes more death and disability among women ages 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, and war. The following startling facts will appaul you:

In Jordan, Morocco, and Syria, women who commit adultery can legally be killed by their husbands.

In Ethiopia, Lebanon, and Urueguay there are laws that will protect a rapist from prosecution, but only if he decides to marry his victim.

Women in Kuwait can't vote.

A wife in Israel can't seek a divorce without her husband's permission.

In Pakistan, three out of four women in jail are there because they were raped. Unless a woman can produce 4 male witnesses who saw the actual act of penetration- her rapist goes free.

In the poorest parts of India,
girls-some as young as 10 years old are sold into prostitution, sometimes by their own families.



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