People in the Third World are suffering intolerable misfortunes today, and in many ways it concerns women and children in particular. In some corners of the world women’s and children’s rights are still an unheard of phenomenon and a privilege to battle for.

Without going into extremes of female circumcision or children’s initiation rights of some tribal peoples, it’s plain clear that the most terrible problems are found in the areas of healthcare, education and child care. A staggering amount of women still die in childbirth, or shortly after giving birth. They have no proper care during pregnancy and virtually no post-natal care for themselves and their babies, and are forced by harsh economic conditions to return to work practically from the birth table. Forced abortions are a problem in India, despite numerous governmental counter measures.

Education of women remains rudimentary at primary school level or no level at all. Only wealthy and higher middle class families can afford to send a woman to college. Many choose not to do so and marry their females into money instead. When it comes to childcare the situation is pretty dire. There are either very low quality nurseries or no such option at all. Women are forced into taking their newborn children to their job environments, which is detrimental for both parties. Nurseries are crowded, lack proper hygiene and medical services.

Some work is done to turn the situation around. But on the whole the standards remain low and a lot of change needs to take place to improve the conditions of women and children.

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