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Women Safety in World: The case of heinous rape and subsequent murder of a female doctor in Kolkata, India has started a discussion on the safety of women everywhere. These incidents have exposed the paper scam going on in the country like Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao. Many issues of women safety are coming to light in India. Despite gruesome cases like the Nirbhaya case, there has been no major improvement in the safety of women in the country even today.
Amidst the ongoing conflict in the name of reforms and security, a global report has shown India a mirror on the issue of women's safety. When it comes to the safety of women and providing them a healthy society and safe environment, there are many countries whose names remain in the news.
Denmark is the best country in the world for women, Afghanistan is the worst.
Actually, when such countries are discussed, European countries are also talked about. According to a recent report, Denmark is the best country in the world in terms of women's safety. Here women are protected at the highest level and with sensitivity. No compromise on women's issue. On the other hand, Afghanistan is the worst country in the world for women. There are reports that the condition of women here is very bad and pathetic.
Researchers conducted a worldwide study on women's safety from 2017 to 2023. Various countries were studied through the Women, Peace and Security Index. Among these, Afghanistan was at the last position while Denmark was at the forefront. Denmark scored more than three times as many points as Afghanistan. The global average has also emerged a little different this time.
The study revealed that the top 12 countries in terms of women's safety included all developed countries. Furthermore, seven of these countries, called Nordic countries, appear in the top seven ranks. Apart from New Zealand, the remaining 9 countries in the top 10 are from Central Europe, Central-Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Similarly, in the list of worst countries for women, 10 countries are considered backward countries and seven of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Surprisingly, countries like Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Syria and Yemen have remained at the bottom since the study began in 2017.
Conclusion based on three points and four types
The researchers said there were three main issues covered in the survey on women's safety and living standards. Three main points and four subtypes have been considered. Inclusion means involving women in social, political and economic matters. Secondly justice means the state of discrimination and justice at both formal and informal levels. The third is security i.e. personal, family, community and social security situation.
Based on these three key points, each country was given a score between 0 and 1. Importantly, this study was done on the basis of data from international organizations like United Nations, World Bank, Gallup World Poll.
Each of the three main points of this study focuses on four types. Firstly, talking about inclusion, issues like education, financial inclusion, employment, mobile use and parliamentary representation were considered. Talking about justice, it focused on issues such as absence of legal discrimination, access to justice, maternal mortality and son bias.
Similarly, security included issues such as intimate partner violence, community safety, political violence targeting women and proximity to conflict. According to experts, these reforms were implemented from 2017 itself. Some new points were added because many things in the old format had become secondary and many new things had emerged that required information.
Safety of women leaders at home, community and society is a burning question
Women's safety was also considered during this study. It also specifically examined the safety of women at various levels in the home, community and society. This time women's safety against intimate partner violence has also been kept in mind. This is an issue in which women complain the least.
According to experts, in such cases, women are first afraid to complain. Moreover, he does not find any proper authority or person whom he can trust and complain to. Apart from this, the fear of his own insult and family's insult is the biggest, due to which he tolerates violence in his bedroom.
In terms of community safety, an average of 64 percent of women in the world feel safe walking around alone. In countries like Kuwait, Singapore, UAE and China this ratio is 90 percent. The social protection rate for women in East Asia and the Pacific is 83 percent.
Sri Lanka has the best position in South Asia
If we talk about the status of women in South Asian countries, then according to experts, Sri Lanka is the best country. Even from the global point of view, the condition of women in Sri Lanka is better at every level than a big country like India. According to the points given to 177 countries of the world, Sri Lanka is ranked 60th in the world with 0.743 points.
Sri Lanka tops South Asia in the regions studied. Here women have been given priority on all three fronts – inclusion, justice and security and adequate work is being done on this.
Maldives is then ranked 72nd globally and second in South Asia with a score of 0.720. India's neighboring and very small country Bhutan is also ahead of it in this matter. Bhutan ranks 82nd in the world in terms of women's safety, economic empowerment and security with a score of 0.700. Whereas in South Asia it ranks third.
China is also included along with Bhutan at the global level. After this, Nepal comes at fourth place in South Asia. Globally, Nepal is ranked 112th with a score of 0.944. In these three cases, India ranks 128th in the world with a score of 0.595.
India is ranked 128th along with small and backward countries like Togo and Lebanon. It ranks fifth in South Asia. After this Bangladesh comes at 131st place. Pakistan is at 158th position in the global ranking.
The worst situation is of Afghanistan which is at 177th position. Which is the last rank and the top rank in the list of worst countries. It is a matter of concern that India is at 50th position in the list of 50 worst countries for women.
There is also huge inequality in access to justice
Not only is there inequality at the global level in economic matters, on the other hand there is huge inequality at the global level in terms of getting justice for women. This time two new subtypes have been added by researchers on the topic of justice. In this, women can access the right to opinion, that is, women can actually get justice.
The second is maternal mortality rate. When the study was done keeping these two aspects in mind, huge disparity was revealed. Countries are ranked from 0 to 4 based on factors such as access to justice and opportunities for women, opportunities and opportunities for women to take their cases to court, processes and opportunities to obtain fair justice, protection of women's rights and judicial Points were awarded. Process.
In this way no country in the world got 4 points. However, Denmark received 3.96 points on this issue. Whereas Afghanistan could score only 0.37 points. There is very little chance of women getting justice under Taliban rule.
Most developed countries scored well in this area. His average was 3.53 marks. If we look at the worst countries for women, 9 out of the top twelve countries have very poor justice systems for women.
Economic freedom has been the biggest factor
When we think about various issues related to women, economic independence plays a huge role in it. Whether women are considered for employment and economic independence or just for economic matters, there is huge difference and variation globally.
There are also large global disparities in employment and economic matters. When it comes to employing women in the world, the global average is only 53 percent. On the other hand, in countries like Madagascar, Solomon Islands and Burundi, employment for women is up to 90 percent, while in Yemen it is only 6 percent.
Even if we look at women's participation in economic matters, there is huge inequality. In 30 countries of the world, the rate of participation of women in economic matters is 95 percent, while there are 8 countries where it is 10 percent or less.
Women's participation in economic matters is increasing globally. Their participation and engagement in economic matters has increased from 59 percent in 2014 to 71 percent now, which is indeed a big thing.
On the other hand, it is also worrying that in countries like Afghanistan and South Sudan, less than five percent of women have their own personal bank accounts.
Only talk in India, no concrete action
The study clearly shows that, when it comes to issues like women's safety, justice and violence, major reforms have been made only on paper. There has not been much change in terms of community, family or socially and politically. Economically women have equal opportunities and opportunities and they are progressing economically but the law and justice system is still in poor condition in cases like sexual violence and rape or gang rape.
First of all, if we look at the average birth rate of boys compared to girls, even today it is 108 against 100 girls. Incidents of misuse of women's images and videos through deepfaking and modding in online media are also increasing.
Complaints were received about photographs of Indian MP Chandrani Murmu being tampered with and used in obscene material. Additionally, when a woman made corruption allegations against a prominent leader of a political party in India, widespread misinformation was spread against the woman on social media by people in the party. In countries like Brazil, Russia, Sudan, Ukraine, women are also made victims of such political games.
In 2022 alone, 125 major incidents of defaming and humiliating women for political rivalry and gain were reported and seriously noted. This is also considered to be the biggest incident in South Asia.