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Nigeria has been named the ninth most harmful nation for ladies within the newest report launched by Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday.
Nigeria made the checklist alongside India, which tops the checklist, DR Congo, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Somalia, no because of poor rankings in instances of s3xual violence, cultural practices, and human trafficking.
Other nations polled to have unhealthy information within the remedy of girls included the USAA, which got here final on the checklist, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen.
Between March 26 and May four, 2018, the Thomson Reuters Foundation surveyed 548 specialists on ladies’s points throughout the globe, together with teachers, well being staff, policy-makers, and NGO staff.
The respondents have been requested to think about the next parameters: well being care, cultural practices, discrimination, s3xual violence, non-s3xual violence, and human trafficking.
While Nigeria didn’t rank in healthcare, discrimination, and non-s3xual violence, Nigeria ranked sixth for (cultural) practices that have been dangerous to ladies, like acid assaults, feminine genital mutilation, baby marriage, compelled marriage, stoning, bodily abuse or mutilation as a type of punishment/retribution and feminine infanticide.
In instances of s3xual violence, Nigeria is ranked fourth on the ballot, with examples of rape as a weapon of conflict, home rape, rape by a stranger, the shortage of entry to justice in rape instances, s3xual harassment and coercion into s3x as a type of corruption cited.
Nigeria can also be ranked fourth place on the ballot in issues of human trafficking.