Experts Ranked the Most Dangerous Countries for Women. The U.S. Made the Top 10

There are many symptoms of the sickness, the shadow side, the unaddressed trauma of our nation which continues to manifest in the many faces of violence towards ourselves and others — domestic violence, sexual abuse and assault, child abuse and neglect, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, substance and non-substance addictions, mass shooting, epidemics in suicide, endless war, crushing poverty, the extreme redistribution of wealth upwards, homelessness, deaths and suffering of the uninsured or under-insured, neoliberalism, dehumanization, factory farms, the ecological and climate crises, and on and on. These intensely unhealthy aspects of our nation are all connected and have existed in one form or another since the earliest days of colonial rule, slavery, and the genocide of Native Americans. What we deny and don't acknowledge, heal, and transform does not go away. Instead, there is an ever growing cost to pay for our neglected selves and the harmful and distorted belief systems that we have absorbed as individuals, as a culture, and as a planetary family. 

There is a deep need for us to assume responsibility as individuals and collectively for the healing of ourselves, our families and communities, our nation, and the planet. We are all connected and where any suffering exists, we are all impacted. The same can be said for consciousness, healing, kindness, caring, courage, compassion, and love. These human qualities are also contagious. May we all be mindful of the ripples we create within ourselves and this beautiful hurting world we share. — Molly

By NATASHA BACH 

What do Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and the U.S. have in common?

Besides the travel ban imposed by the last on the first three, these four countries are among the 10 most dangerous in the world for women.

According to a new survey from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the U.S. is the 10th most dangerous country in the world for women, and the only Western democracy in the top ten.

The report attributes the inclusion of the U.S. in the list to the rise of the #MeToo movement that has helped uncover the near-ubiquity of sexual harassment. In fact, the U.S. and Syria tied for third for the risks women face in terms of sexual violence, harassment, sexual coercion, and women’s lack of access to justice in cases of rape.

Cindy Southworth, executive vice president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, told Reuters that “people want to think income means you’re protected from misogyny, and sadly that’s not the case.”

The U.S.’s poor standing in this survey arrives just a week after a UN report found the U.S. to be the most unequal country in the developed world, with 40 million people living in poverty.

Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, and Afghanistan round out the top 10 most dangerous countries for women.

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