10 countries in which women do not have the slightest rights

Despite the progress achieved today by the struggle for gender equality throughout the world, there are still regions where women live in fear and even do not even think about equality.

For the vast number of women citizens of the next ten countries, the rights of freedom and the opportunities of the digital age remain beyond reach, while they are regularly victimized by oppression, isolation, discrimination, violence and forced ignorance.

Afghanistan

After many years of war, political pressure, social reforms and religious repression, most Afghan women today are completely illiterate. More than half of all brides of the country get married in early adolescence, and every half-hour of complications during childbirth dies one woman.

Violence in families is so widespread that 87% of Afghan women claim that they were or are its victims.

Mali

In one of the poorest countries in the world, very few women avoid senseless torture of circumcision. Girls have no choice but to have an early marriage, and poor health care is responsible for the fact that every tenth woman dies as a result of pregnancy or childbirth.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

In the east of the Congo, a military conflict broke out again, which already claimed the lives of three million people. In such an environment, women suffer most.

UN investigators called the level of rape unprecedented because of their cruelty and systematic. The search for food and water expose women to even greater risks. They do not have a way to escape because of lack of money, transportation and communications.

Iraq

The literacy rate of Iraqi women, once very high, fell to a record low. The thing is that regular abductions and rapes frighten families so much that they do not send girls to schools.

Women who once worked, today are forced to stay at home and suffer from poverty.

Nepal

Early marriage and frequent childbirth deplete the hungry women of the country, and a huge number of them die during pregnancy or childbirth. Families who could not marry a girl often sell her to slavery even before she becomes a teenager.

Terrible conditions characterize the life of widows: they face unjustified persecutions, violence and discrimination.

Sudan

While women's rights have improved in most of the country due to new legislation, the situation of the weaker sex has worsened in the western Sudan.

Abductions, rapes or forced relocations have destroyed more than a million lives of Sudanese women since 2003.

Militias use systematic rape as a demographic weapon, and women who have suffered violence can not achieve justice.

Guatemala

Poor and illiterate Guatemalan women are victims of domestic violence and frequent rape by criminals. In terms of the level of AIDS, Guatemala is second only to sub-Saharan Africa.

Pakistan

In the border areas of Pakistan, women are often raped as punishment for male crimes. In addition, because of a new wave of religious extremism, educated women holding public office are subjected to violence and the risk of murder.

Saudi Arabia

The legislation of this Arab country regards women as lifelong dependents. They are under the guardianship of a man - husband or relative - and the lack of all protection by the government.

Women are deprived of standard rights, such as driving a car or communicating with men. They are absolutely isolated, and violation of the rules is severely punished.

Somalia

In the Somali capital of Mogadishu, civil war broke the lives of women who were the traditional stronghold of the family.

In this society torn apart by conflict, women are daily subjected to physical and sexual violence.