Women suffer the most

International Women's Day is March 8 and even though crime shows no bias, women still seem to take the biggest blow.  Recent instances such as Olympian, Oscar Pistorius murdering his girlfriend but claiming that he believed her to be an intruder, despite multiple domestic violence calls from the residence or the recent gang rape in India that a previous blog earlier this month, are examples of how crime effects women no matter the location.  In India, women suffer immensely being subjects of crimes such as human trafficking.  More developed countries are also experiencing high rates of crime against women.  For example, in South Africa 64,000 women reported being raped last year.  An even more alarming statistic is that in South Africa the rate of murders of women there was five times the average rate of the rest of the world.  Iran and Canada had experienced civil relationships until recently.  An Iranian woman left Iran to become a Canadian citizen, but was arrested in Tehran for taking pictures on a student protest.  Zahra Kazemi, a photojournalist, passed away in Iranian custody and the reasons given as to the circumstances of her death were gray.  A medical examiner cited that Kazemi died as a result torture, gruesome rapes, and broken bones.  Canada is not an exception to crimes against women, though.  The Saudi Gazette reports that fifty even percent of women there have been victims of sexual abuse, but only six percent of them actually report to law enforcement.  In North America one in four women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.  These statistics show that even the elites of the world has a ways to go to confront this alarming issue. 

This article addresses what we are discussing in class.  Crime has shown that women are more prone to violent crimes.  These crimes involve sexual assault most of the time and this contributes to the fact that women know their assailants roughly 65% of the time.  This is also an example of a societal issue of how the world still views women as an inferior because some feel that sexual satisfaction is a right and that sexual assault is not an actual crime; this is also an example of what people perceive to be defined as a crime.

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130301155004