Originally posted by lada
Yup Ravs. But it depend on every single country. Did you note that most poor rights they have in most poor countries, mostly destroyed by long wars ?
Look at ritch countries in ME and check their situation.
Im afraid that domestical voilence is not smaller here. its only very well hidden. if you sometime read some materials about home voilance, you will find amazing numbers.
Sutch problem must be properly discovered, uncovered, before we will speak about some fixing.
Well, lada, it does depend on many factors.
Let's take a look at Saudi Arabia - a 'rich' middle eastern country relatively untroubled by war.
Here is their human rights record. Frankly, it's abysmal. Racism and sexism is virtually institutionalised there. Hell, the US State department says
this and the US is supposed to be Saudi's 'friend'.
Of course there are always going to be unreported domestic violence crimes in any society, but I'm willing to bet my bottom dollar that they are going to be far more unreported abuses in countries, like Saudi, where there are few or no structures for redress than, say in Europe.
Ravs