World is ‘talking the talk but not walking the walk’ on women’s rights, according to new report
The Independent
World is ‘talking the talk but not walking the walk’ on women’s rights, according to new report
Jonathan Owen
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Well-meaning rhetoric on women’s rights is not being matched by meaningful action, with girls suffering the “double jeopardy” of being young and female, according to a new report.
The world is failing to deliver on gender equality, says the study by children’s charity Plan UK. There is no country where women and men have equal opportunities, equal pay or equal distribution of assets, and domestic violence remains “pervasive, cutting across geography, age, class and race,” states the Pathways to Power report.
More than a quarter of girls and women under 20 have experienced violence at the hands of a partner. Improvements in the legal protection of women are often “fragile” and “not matched by implementation on the ground”.
Despite “extensive legislation” and “years of campaigning” girls in many countries are “disproportionately affected by poverty, injustice, violence and discrimination”. They “are simply ‘less valued’ than boys,” and “grow up as “second-class citizens”, it says....
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