Its shocking
Most DANGEROUS places for women: India ranks 4th!
The survey, produced by the recently launched TrustLaw website -- a product of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has revealed that Afghanistan, Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia are the five top countries where record of women's progress in different fields is extremely poor.
TrustLaw asked 213 gender experts from five continents to rank countries by overall perceptions of danger as well as by six risks: health threats, sexual violence, non-sexual violence, cultural or religious factors, lack of access to resources and trafficking.
Some experts said the poll showed that subtle dangers such as discrimination that don't grab headlines are sometimes just as significant risks for women as bombs, bullets, stonings and systematic rape in conflict zones, the report stated.Image: India ranks fourth among five top countries where record of women's progress in different fields is extremely poor
Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters
In 2009, former home secretary Madhukar Gupta estimated that 100 million people, mostly women and girls, were involved in trafficking in India that year, the report quoted.
"The practice is common but lucrative so it goes untouched by government and police," said Cristi Hegranes, founder of the Global Press institute, which trains women in developing countries to be journalists.
The Central Bureau of Investigation estimated that in 2009 about 90 percent of trafficking took place within the country and that there were some 3 million prostitutes, of which about 40 percent were children.
In addition to sex slavery, other forms of trafficking include forced labour and forced marriage, according to a US State Department report on trafficking in 2010. The report also found slow progress in criminal prosecutions of traffickers.
Image: India was ranked fourth primarily due to female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking, the report noted
Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters
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