K: Ten facts and figures on women’s rights

1. 600,000 women - one every minute - die each year from pregnancy-related causes.*

2. In the Global South, women traditionally eat less and do not get more food during pregnancy.*

3. 90% of the rural female labour force get classified as "housewives".*

4. Women produce nearly 80% of the food on the planet, but receive less than 10% of agricultural assistance.*

5. 75% of the refugees and internally displaced in the world are women.*

6. In Ethiopia and Nigeria almost 50 % of the maternal deaths result from complications due to abortion.**

7. In Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, and Zimbabwe the level of unwanted pregnancies among adolescent girls is 50% or more.**

8. In several African countries, up to 70% of women treated for abortion complications are younger than 20. **

9. In Uganda 49% of surveyed schoolgirls who responded that they were sexually active said they had been coerced to have sex.**

10. In North Sudan, 89% of women have undergone infibulation, the most severe type of female genital mutilation (FGM).**

SOURCES:

* Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) is an international, non-governmental organization (NGO) that empowers women and girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in their families, communities, and societies.
http://www.learningpartnership.org/facts/human.phtml

** AMANITARE, which evolved from the need for a coordinated Pan-African effort to consolidate the skills, knowledge and institutional resources of groups and individuals active in the field of sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and women's rights.
http://www.amanitare.org/home2.html