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             This incident reflects typical crimes and injustices against women in the Third World countries. Crimes against women include abuse,
             slavery, false imprisonment, murder and rape. In these countries, women are considered to be inferior to men and are not granted equal
             rights or protection under the laws. The governments, religions and cultures of these countries support the inequalities, thus allowing
             vicious crimes against women to continue without any recourse by the victims. The phrase "women's rights" refers to the basic human
             rights that are withheld from women simply because they are women. Women's rights promote political, social and economic equality
             for women in a society that traditionally confers more status and freedom to men. A basic right is for girls to grow up to be women:
             today twelve percent of the females born worldwide are missing, many of them victims of infanticide. Other women's rights include: the
             right to live free of physical abuse, the right to live free of sexual exploitation, the right to health care and nutrition, the right to an
             acceptable standard of living, the right to chose her own partner, the right to vote, the right to control property, and the right to equal
             treatment before the law along with freedom of speech. Women in Third World countries do not have the rights that American women
             enjoy. In most of these countries, women do not even have rights equivalent to those of American women in the nineteenth century. For
             example, the women have arranged marriages, have very limited access to education and are abused by their arranged husbands. In
             these countries, women work twice as many hours as men for one-tent...

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