Canada is #1 G20 country for women

[Anti-Am]

Take from this what you will, globe and mail seems to disagree with the experts.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/13/us-g20-women-idUSBRE85C00420120613

LONDON, June 13 (TrustLaw) - Policies that promote gender equality, safeguards against violence and exploitation and access to healthcare make Canada the best place to be a woman among the world's biggest economies, a global poll of experts showed on Wednesday.

Infanticide, child marriage and slavery make India the worst, the same poll concluded.

Germany, Britain, Australia and France rounded out the top five countries out of the Group of 20 in a perceptions poll of 370 gender specialists conducted by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The United States came in sixth but polarized opinion due to concerns about reproductive rights and affordable healthcare.

At the other end of the scale, Saudi Arabia - where women are well educated but are banned from driving and only won the right to vote in 2011 - polled second-worst after India, followed by Indonesia, South Africa and Mexico.

HOW THEY RANK 1. Canada 2. Germany 3. Britain 4. Australia 5. France 6. United States 7. Japan 8. Italy 9. Argentina 10. South Korea 11. Brazil 12. Turkey 13. Russia 14. China 15. Mexico 16. South Africa 17. Indonesia 18. Saudi Arabia 19. India

Edited June 13, 2012 by Anti-Am

[bush_cheney2004]

Methinks not.....

The following is taken from the Report issued by the Committee against Torture, Concluding observations of the Committee against Torture: Canada, UN Doc. CAT/C/CAN/CO/6 (advance unedited version, 2012), para. 20:

While noting several measures taken by the federal and provincial governments to combat high violence against Aboriginal women and girls, including cases of murders and disappearances (CAT/C/CAN/Q/6/Add.1, paras.76 et al.), the Committee is concerned about ongoing reports that (a) marginalised women, in particular Aboriginal women, experience disproportionately high levels of life-threatening forms of violence, spousal homicides and enforced disappearances; and (

the State party failed to promptly and effectively investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators as well as to provide adequate protection for victims. Furthermore, the Committee regrets the statement by the delegation that the issues on violence against women fall more squarely within other bodies’ mandate and recalls that the State bears responsibility and its officials should be considered as authors, complicit or otherwise responsible under the Convention for consenting to or acquiescing in acts of torture or ill-treatment committed by non-State officials or private actors. (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 16) [underline added]

[Anti-Am]

As all studies, everyone will have a difference of opinions regarding the results.

Edited June 13, 2012 by Anti-Am