Os países mais perigosos do mundo para as mulheres

Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan are the world's most dangerous countries for women due to a barrage of threats ranging from violence and rape to dismal healthcare and "honour killngs", a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll showed on Wednesday.
India and Somalia ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, in the global perceptions survey by TrustLaw, the Foundation's legal news service.
TrustLaw asked 213 gender experts from five continents to rank countries by overall perceptions of danger as well as by six risks: health threats, sexual violence, non-sexual violence, cultural or religious factors, lack of access to resources and trafficking.
Following are key facts on each of the five countries, ranked in order of danger. [...]

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Ministro (cristão) paquistanês das minorias assassinado

Shahbaz Bhatti was Pakistan’s Minister for Minorities and today he paid the price for belonging to the most despised Pakistani minority of all: Christians. He was shot dead in his car for the crime of campaigning to reform the country’s medieval blasphemy laws. Those laws are used to make life hell for Christians – but that doesn’t seem to bother Britain and the EU, which pour millions of pounds into Pakistan and don’t make a big deal out of anti-Christian persecution.
I don’t recall an enormous fuss being made, either, when Egypt last week acquitted the suspected murderers of six Coptic Christians mown down as they left Mass in Nag Hammadi in January. That was the “justice” handed out to Christians in Mubarak’s Egypt. If the Muslim Brotherhood seize power, this sort of case won’t even come to court.
Thank God, then, for our allies in Afghanistan. Following intense and secretive diplomatic pressure, they have magnanimously decided not to execute a man who converted to Christianity. So, you see, we did bring freedom to the Afghan people after all!

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‘Facebook para muçulmanos‘ lançado no Paquistão

Resourceful IT experts in Pakistan have launched their own version of the social networking site Facebook after the real thing was blocked for showing 'blasphemous' images of the Prophet Mohammed.
MillatFacebook, meaning Nation Facebook in Urdu, was launched on Wednesday and has already attracted some 8,000 users.
Omar Zaheer Meer, one of the six web developers, said their aim was to offer an alternative to Facebook which condemned the contest encouraging users to submit images of the Prophet Mohammed.
Millat Facebook also promises stronger privacy settings than its US counterpart.

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Dia da caricatura de Maomé no Facebook provoca ira do Paquistão

Double peine au Pakistan pour les réseaux sociaux. Après Facebook, qu’un tribunal a fait bloquer jusqu’au 31 mai, les autorités ont décidé, ce jeudi, d’interdire l’accès à YouTube.

Les deux plus importantes plateformes sociales bloquées en deux jours ? L’offensive pakistanaise est inédite. Islamabad justifie son tour de vis par l’apparition sur Facebook et YouTube d’un concours de caricatures de Mahomet, une compétition qu'Islamabad a même officiellement condamné.

En effet, une poignée de personnes, sous l’impulsion d’une internaute répondant au pseudonymeMimi Sulpovar, ont décidé que ce jeudi serait le "EverybodyDrawMohammeDay" ("Journée durant laquelle tout le monde dessine Mahomet") sur Facebook. Lancée il y a quelques semaines, cette initiative a profité d’un effet viral grandissant. À tel point qu’au-delà des traditionnels groupes Facebook, un blog a été mis en ligne pour promouvoir l’initiative. [...]

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