Femicide In Sub-Saharan Africa

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Femicide can be described as unnecessary hate crimes toward women. Unfortunately, our world is no stranger to the idea of hatred and oppression toward women. Women have fought many fights to earn rights and be classified as citizens that can do what they need to do to be productive members of society. In America, women have much more sway in modern society than we did say 50 years ago. Although we are not equal yet, we are making progress. In sub-Saharan Africa, however, the opposite is true. Women are severely beleaguered and are seen as objects. It is a sorrowful reality and the effects of this are seen in the number of diseased and down trodden women. Appalling statistics exist in the article AIDS as Mass Femicide: Focus on South Africa.

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