A new report prepared for UN Human Right Commissioner Louise Arbour by a professor at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) says that women are discriminated against in nearly every country in the world.
It says that this is despite the fact that 185 UN member states pledged to outlaw laws favouring men by 2005...It adds that 70% of the world's poor are women and they own just 1% of the world's titled land.
For more information on the rights of women worldwide, make sure to check out Beijing Betrayed: Women Worldwide Report that Governments Have Failed To Turn the Platform into Action. It's a global report issued by the Women's Environment and Development Organization on how different countries have implemented the Beijing Platform for Action. (And yes, I'm biased because I edited the report, but it's still great!) Better yet, it's available in English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian.
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an interesting aside concerning women's rights and bycycling:
http://googlemapsbikethere.org/faq/#womens_rights
Am I the only one who doesn't see anything about women's rights on that link?
Women around the world respond with a resounding "Duh".