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Gender Inequality
Representation in Government
Issue
Most of the parliamentarians are men. Only 22.8 percent of parliamentarians are female. Many women are also oppressed, neglected and discriminated against.
All grown women that want to be a parliamentarian.
Solutions
Everyone has to be come involved to raise women rights.
Support each other and make sure your voice is heard as much as possible.
It happens the most Middle East and the US. In those places many women are oppressed.
Education
Issue
Girls and boys aren't getting the same amount of education.
The people affected are young girls everywhere. In some countries, girls can't go to school while boys are required to go to school.
Afghanistan has the most problems involving girls going to school. More than 1000 girl schools have been attacked. Some were set on fire and others were bombed.
Solutions
You can support Non-Government organizations that help provide education access and support to girls.
NGOs that support female education rights are involved in giving more girls education.
Some examples of these NGOs is UN Women and Plan International
Violence Against Women, Sexual Assault and Rape
Issue
Females aged 12-34 are most of the targets of sexual abuse.
A report from the UN combined different studies that were conducted in at least 71 countries. The studies showed that Ethiopia had the most domestic Violence against women.
Others terms are incestry and child sexual abuse
It is sexual, verbal, physical, and mental abuse against women. Rape is the act of having sex with someone against their will. Sexual assault is the crime to have someone else engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat.
Solutions
Punish people who assault women more and make women more confident to call out people who assault them.
The government has to make stricter laws on assault.
Human Trafficking
Issue
Human trafficking is most prevalent in the United States mostly Texas, Florida, New York, and California.
Human trafficking is the act of using force achieve some type of labor, physical and sexual.
All men, women and children are affected but females make up 71% of that
Solutions
Make sure everyone knows the red flags or indicators of potential human trafficking victims. You also have to know about the human trafficking hotline.
Schools and the government play the biggest roles in spreading all this information for everyone.
Female genital mutilation
Issue
FGM can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.
Girls commonly cut after birth to age 15.
The girls is prevalent mostly in Western, Eastern, North-Eastern (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan) of Africa regions, some countries are in Middle East and Asia
Solutions
Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
Sharing this article on Facebook and Twitter and adding your voice to the conversation using #EndFGM.
Educate girls on their right to decide what happens to their body
Speak out about the risks and realities of FGM
Governments everywhere have to make sure that FGM is illegal.
Illiteracy
Solution
step forward and go to your local book donation centre or library
Volunteering
volunteer to teach students in low education country.
Donating
Donate book that you think you won't read again.
Send to one of three charities: North America, United Kingdom and Europe, or World Literacy Foundation.
Then one of three charities will send to low education countries.
Issue
Illiteracy affects females from age 16 and under the most.
Most girls in some countries aren't allowed to get education is therefore won't be able to read or write language.
Countries like Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Chad have the lowest literacy rates for women.