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Women's Rights & Issues

mercuryblues

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2. Yet repupublicans

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:36 AM

Apr 2019

plan on voting against the Violence against women act. Over 1,000 women are killed each year by DV. about 55% of them with guns. Over 4 million women have admitted to having a gun pulled on them during a relationship.

85% of the victims of DV are women and 15% men.
Intimate partner homicide is the cause for 50% of premature deaths of women each year. For men it is 5.9%

Now America has made the list of 10 most dangerous countries for women.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113811664

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Which are the world's 10 most dangerous countries for women? US #10, only western country on list [View all] niyad Apr 2019 OP

I'd like to know how this was measured. Sanity Claws Apr 2019 #1

Yet repupublicans mercuryblues Apr 2019 #2

I think this is very wrong. Countries like South Africa and Brazil OregonBlue Apr 2019 #3

did you read the list? niyad Apr 2019 #4

I read the top 10 which included the US. Neither Brazil or South Africa was in the top ten. I think OregonBlue Apr 2019 #5