Countries:
India, Haiti
Topics:
Gender, Human Rights

For Women's Day, India-based Haitian Blogger Pascale Doresca compares [Fr] the lot of women in the third world to that in the first world and concludes: “Developed countries are far in advance of developing ones if one takes into account that having a daughter in many parts of India is considered a curse, that about 45% of women under 18 are married, that a maternal death takes place every 2 hours in West Bengal. Giving the world's women human dignity is not a feminist act. It is a humanist duty… “

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