Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tho world Winnipeg free july a7 girls suffering study human rights violations called worlds worst Ivancin dont pay a cent til 1998 Canadian press London women and girls Are being victimized through systematic discrimination and violence that amount to the worst human rights violations in the Unicof says in its annual the entitled Progress of nations and released yester suggests that As Many As 60 million More women ought to be alive on the Globe than currently these missing the report have been driven off the face of the Earth because of gender which predominates in South and West China and North this chronic condition of Vio Lence amounts to the most pervasive human rights violation in the world said Carol Unic efs executive Unicof is the in body that deals with Chil Drens its report suggests that instead of the widespread mistreatment and undervaluing of women is largely accepted As the Way things examples in the report of the Way things every nine seconds in the United a woman is physically abused by her in More than women Are killed every year because their inlays deem their dowries in some countries of the Middle East and latin a husband can be exonerated for killing an unfaithful wife on the grounds he was protecting his about two million girls a year undergo Geni Tal which the report suggests is the female equivalent of amputation of All or part of the More than one million children a most Bellamy discusses report with Are forced into pros Titu the report acknowledges that at first that Litany of statistics could seem wildly exam it is Likely unde Resti it Many of the crimes perpetrated against women go even in a comparatively open society like the research shows that Only one in 100 battered women Ever reports the abuse she most Home is the most dangerous place to crime statistics indicate most women who Are raped know their attackers 40 per cent of female murder victims the spreading emancipation of women might have been expected to diminish violence in the but that appears not to be the report the Long Arm of the Law does not extend into the Home in Many Laws that Stop at the Doorstep of the family Are a form of moral the report changing the deeply ingrained belief that women Are less valuable than men wont be the report but one Way to Start is providing girls the same Access to education As political Power is also it noting that women hold Only seven per cent of High level elected or appointed government the report notes that Canada is Well above the global with 19 per although that figure is based on january 1996 statistics and Doest take into account the results of last months Canada still lags behind the some other european countries and even where women hold 29 per cent of top political Midsummer Learance Bonus accessory kit includes carry Case Batter protective filter value no Down payment no no interest no taxes no administration fees no Fine print warranty 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that sends teens to help poor communities in latin waste contaminates water supplies and increases the risk of which kills million children each it also pollutes open areas and attracts vermin that carry when you have a medieval level of you have a medieval level of and no country can Advance without a healthy the Unicof report the problem is most acute in Rural where Only 18 per cent of people worldwide have Access to a toilet or according to in in Urban areas of developing 63 per cent have decent the figures Are rough because Unicof used data from countries with widely varying definitions of adequate for reports that 80 per cent of households have Access to adequate sanitation but the figure shrinks to three per cent if pit latrines Are the report the Cost of providing an adequate toilet or latrine ranges from to Unicof the Agency blamed the problem partly on the huge payments that industrializing countries must make on Loans taken out during the other experts blame the the funds Are said Jose a sanitation Engineer with the world health organization in the question is the governments Pri Christopher first Secretary for the kenyan High commission in said sanitation cannot be a priority when the country is dealing with so Many other like most developing Kenya has struggled with International debt since the from 1981 to capital expenditures for water and sewage fell by a Factor of Kenya and other developing coun tries have focused their spending on Safe and almost 800 million More people have Safe water today than in the world Bank estimates that 20 of the worlds most heavily indebted countries owe billion to lending organizations and wealthy the Bank recently began the highly indebted poor countries Relief Initia which will allow some poor coun tries to divert Money from debt repayment to Dennis chief of Rural environmental health at the world health said governments often prefer to ignore sanitation sanitation is not a sexy he governments often do not have a 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