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100 million women and girls are missing around the world because of gender discrimination.

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More girls and women are now missing from the planet, precisely because they are female, than men were killed on the battlefield in all the wars of the 20th century.  The number of victims of this routine “gendercide” far exceeds the number of people who were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century.

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In India, a “bride burning” takes place approximately once every two hours, to punish a woman for an inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry.

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1 percent of the world’s landowners are women.

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21 percent of young women surveyed in Ghana reported that their sexual initiation was by rape.

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130 million women around the world have been subjected to genital cutting.

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70 percent of people living in poverty around the world are women and children.

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1 women dies in childbirth for every 100,000 live births in Ireland.
2,100 women die in childbirth for every 100,000 live births in Sierra Leone.

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There are 5 thousand honor killings a year, the majority in the Muslim world.

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12.3 million people engaged in forced labor of all kinds, including sexual servitude.

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Above statistics from NY Times Sunday Magazine 08.23.09