Nicholas D.Kristof

Half the Sky

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  • Marina Zalahas quoted8 years ago
    India will not be free,
    Until its women are free.
    What about the girls in this country?
    If girls are insulted and abused and enslaved in this country,
    Put your hand on your heart and ask,
    Is this country truly independent?
  • Marina Zalahas quoted8 years ago
    One of the scandals of the early twenty-first century is that 122 million women around the world want contraception and can’t get it. Whatever one thinks of abortion, it’s tragic that up to 40 percent of all pregnancies globally are unplanned or unwanted
  • Marina Zalahas quoted8 years ago
    World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years.
  • Marina Zalahas quoted8 years ago
    The United Nations Population Fund has estimated that there are 5,000 honor killings a year, almost all in the Muslim world (Pakistan’s government uncovered 1,261 honor killings in 2003 alone). But that estimate appears too low, because so many of the executions are disguised as accidents or suicides
  • Marina Zalahas quoted8 years ago
    U.S. State Department has estimated that between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year, 80 percent of them women and girls, mostly for sexual exploitation.
  • Marina Zalahas quoted8 years ago
    The International Labour Organization, a UN agency, estimates that at any one time there are 12.3 million people engaged in forced labor of all kinds, not just sexual servitude. A UN report estimated that 1 million children in Asia alone are held in conditions indistinguishable from slavery
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