1. Millennium
Development Goals
3. Promoting gender equality
and empowering women

2. Empowering Women – An
Introduction.
• Although there are several international
agreements affirming women’s human rights, they
are still much more likely to be poor and illiterate
than men. They usually have less access to medical
care, property ownership, credit, training and
employment rather than men. The majority of
women are generally victims of domestic violence.
They are far less likely than men to be politically
active.

3. Empowering Women – Rights and
Equality.
• The ability of women to control their own fertility is
absolutely fundamental to women’s empowerment
and equality. When a woman is healthy, she can be
more productive. And when her reproductive rights
including the right to decide the number, timing and
spacing of her children, and to make decisions
regarding reproduction free of discrimination and
violence, she has freedom to participate more fully
and equally in society.

4. Ending widespread violence against
woman
• Around the world, every three woman has been beaten,
abused in some way by her husband or male family
member and forced into sex. One woman in four has been
abused during sex.
• According to Vienne human right conference “the most
pervasive yet least recognized human rights abuse in the
world”. Violence may profound some effects in a woman's
health -> unwanted pregnancy
-> unsafe abortion
-> sexually transmitted infection
-> psychological problems
• Violence at home is most common during the wife's
pregnancy even kicking or hitting the belly.

5. Proportion of seats held by women in single or
lower houses of national parliaments, 2000 and
2013 (Percentage).

6. References
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g47MW2d4
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References:
~ Google images
~ Youtube