We live in a world where even most humans, which consider themselves as morally superior over nonhuman animals (without a justified reason of course), do not have basic control over what happens with their lives.
We are in the third millennium and half of the human population is systematically and automatically discriminated against.
The nonhuman animals don’t have a chance to ever be liberated!
How long would women have to wait until they won't be murdered for expressing their opinions?
For looking at the wrong direction?
When will men understand that women belong only to themselves?
When will forced marriages stop?
When will women stop having sex with men they don’t desire?
When will the beating, the humiliations and the discriminations end?
When will be the last rape?

• 70% of the 1.2 billion people living in poverty are female.
• Approximately 80% of the displaced people by conflicts and wars are women and children.
• On average, women are paid 30% - 40% less than men for comparable work.
• Women hold only 12% of parliamentary seats worldwide. In the least developed countries it can be as low as 8.5%.
• In Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen there is not even one woman in the parliament.
• One of every 3 women has, at some point in her life, been the victim of sexual assault, physical or psychological.
• At least half of all women have been insulted, threatened or had their personal property destroyed.
• Worldwide, ¼ of all women are raped during their lifetime.
• About 70% of female murder victims are killed by their male partners.
  In the United States a woman is physically abused by her intimate partner every 9 seconds. In India, more than 5,000 women are murdered each year because their in-laws consider their dowries inadequate.
• Two thirds of the one billion illiterate adults in the world are female.
• Of the 130 million children not enrolled in primary schools, two thirds are girls.
• One out of every 3 adult women cannot read or write.
• Only about half of the girls in the least developed nations stay in school after the forth grade.
• In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, less than 1% of women attend high school or college.

Taliban's relation toward women is one of the most oppressive in the world. Women are banned from most types of work, are forced to wear a head-to-toe enveloping garment and are banned from education beyond primary school.
Women are not permitted to work outside their home, unless they are healthcare professionals or widows. The latter, estimated as 40,000 in Kabul alone, are mostly unable to obtain paid employment and are reduced to begging for supporting their families. They face constant harassment and violence at the hands of the religious police.
In Saudi Arabia, women are faced with systematic discrimination in all aspects of their lives: they are denied equality of opportunity in access to work, forced to comply with a restrictive dress code and segregated in public life.
Kuwait's record on women's rights is also dismal. The Kuwaiti government denies women the right to vote, segregates them, and requires them to veil in public.
Religious police punish infractions of the dress code with public beatings.

The Thai government denies women who marry non-nationals, the right to buy and own property in their own names.
Egypt discriminates women who marry non-nationals, by refusing to allow them to transfer their nationality to their children.
Venezuela prevented women from marrying until ten months after a divorce or an annulment.
Syria conditions a woman's choice in marriage on the consent of a male family member, although having no such restriction for men.
A Muslim Syrian woman could not marry a non-Muslim, while a Muslim man has absolute freedom to choose a spouse.
Syrian law also assigned different rights and responsibilities for women and men during marriage. A wife's "disobedience" could lead to cancellation of her husband's responsibility to provide support. A man could legally have up to four wives simultaneously, while a woman could have only one husband.

"They took all the women and girls to another room and started with my fourteen-years-old daughter. She was crying a lot and imploring them not to do this because she is a virgin. But one of the men threatened her with his gun and said he would kill her if she did not undress. She was raped three times. The commander raped her twice, and another soldier raped her once. Then the two who were inside went out and the three who were outside came in and forced me next. I was raped five times. Then... they tried to rape my twelve-years-old daughter. But, I resisted by keeping my arms around her while they kept trying to hit her. We cried and said that we are poor people with no enemies, so why are you doing these things to us. The commander said, 'It is our choice. You are Talib and you are Pashtun."

Men reassert their power and dominance against the perceived "weaker" individuals in society.
In this context, rape is an assertion of power and aggression in an attempt to reassert the rapist's masculinity.

An estimated 683,000 rapes occur each year. Only 16% of rape victims report the offense to the police. More than half of the rapes occur before age of 18 and nearly one-third occur before the age of 12.

In many places in the world, rape within marriage doesn't even count. When a woman is married - "no" to sex is not an option. A woman is supposed to give in to her husband. She is his property, his belonging. She has no rights over herself. Her body belongs to him.

Inadequacies in criminal justice systems create an environment where it is easy to commit an offence of rape without any severe consequences.
Rape has one of the lowest conviction rates of all serious crimes. Offenders frequently evade arrest and conviction and continue to intimidate their victims and the victims’ families. In the absence of effective witness protection services, women often withdraw or fail to report cases as they fear intimidation by the perpetrator.
Sentencing tends to be so lenient, that it creates an impression that rape is not a serious crime.

Although millions of women and girls endure rape in war as a political weapon, the international community relates to it as another unfortunate affair during a war.
This is by no doubt a part of women discrimination and inferiority.

Rape is one of the most devastating personal traumas. Many victims feel as if their lives have been shattered and that their psychological and physical privacy has been invaded. The emotional scars can take months and sometimes years to heal, if at all. Typical reactions following a rape include feelings of shock, disbelief, numbness, fear, anger, guilt and self-blame. Changes in behavior are common, including withdrawal, sleep disturbances, hyper vigilance, mood swings, poor concentration and avoidance. These rape trauma reactions are similar to post traumatic stress reactions but symptoms such as avoiding men, sexual difficulties, feeling ashamed and dirty, are specific to the nature of this crime.

About half of raped women get genital injuries. Third get external vulvar bruising. Genital injuries are more common when anal penetration had occurred. Anal tears and bruising were seen in 75% of women reporting anal rape.

The first mental health problem examined after a rape is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an extremely debilitating disorder occurring after a highly disturbing traumatic event, such as military combat or violent crime.
Almost one-third (31%) of all rape victims developed PTSD sometime during their lifetime; and more than one in ten rape victims (11%) suffer from PTSD their entire life. Major depression is a problem affecting many women, not just rape victims. However, 30% of rape victims had experienced at least one major depressive episode in their lifetime.
Rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder are 13.4 times more likely to have serious alcohol problems and they are 26 times more likely to have serious drug abuse problems.

For many South African girls, Sexual violence, harassment and abuse are an inevitable part of the school environment. As a result of the government's failure to protect girls and to respond effectively to Sexual violence, not only the girls’ body and integrity are violated but also their right to education. It’s a discriminatory barrier for young women and girls seeking an education. Girls are raped in the toilets, in empty classrooms and hallways, in hostels and dormitories. Being raped, many girls are transferred to new schools, others simply leave school entirely. These girls' lives totally fall apart.

Women's economic vulnerability limits their chances to change their situation when confronted with violence. Poverty-stricken women (particularly those in rural areas, are often financially dependent) have limited access to employment and are unsupported mothers who must fulfill the role of caregiver, they have limited access to health, education, social, psychological and legal services.
African women, who are undoubtedly the poorest sector of our society, are more than ten times likelier to experience an incident of violence compared to their white counterparts.

10% - 14% of married women have experienced at least one forced sexual assault by a husband or an ex-husband. In addition to the violation of their bodies, they are faced with a betrayal of trust and intimacy.

For tens of millions of women today, home is a locus of terror. It is not the assault of strangers that women need to fear the most, but everyday brutality at the hands of relatives, friends and lovers. Beating at home is by far the most universal form of violence against women. One in three women injured during a physical assault or rape, required medical care.

Domestic violence is tragically commonplace. It occurs across education, class, income and ethnic boundaries. One quarter to one-half of all women have suffered physical abuse by an intimate partner. While there is not yet enough data to make accurate country-by-country comparisons, the prevalence and pattern of domestic violence are remarkably consistent from one culture to the next. Statistics on rape from industrialized and developing countries show strikingly similar patterns: Between 1 in 5 and 1 in 7 women will be victims of rape in their lifetime.

Until when will prison be a safer alternative to women than their own home?

Women's vulnerability derives not only from the threat of direct violence. Women have been the historic victims of political and economic exclusion and have suffered the ravages of patriarchy, sexism and discriminatory practices that have kept them outside of social, political and economic power structures.

Men are bombarded with violence on a daily basis. Humans glorify the role of the "macho" man through action movies, television, advertisements, violent video games and toys, pornography and more.
Just as traditional notions of femininity have influenced both the way women behave and the way they are expected to behave, men are victims of similar expectations, to be controlling, aggressive, physically strong, heterosexual, courageous and a financial provider.
From the earliest age, boys learn how to “be a man” from their, fathers, mothers, teachers, mentors, friends and other role models including the ones they find on television and in movies. Many studies have long ago proved that as opposed to what you might like to believe, boys don’t really need other men to teach them how to be machos. It is in their blood.
The genetic factor and not their intended role in society, is what leads children to pick “gender toys”. Again and again kindergarten children (even first timers who still don’t have favorite toys) pick their toys on a gender base, even when all kinds of toys are given to them. Furthermore, when girls get trucks and soldiers and boys get dolls and kitchenware, they are quickly bored and anxious to substitute to their natural toys.
Boys play with guns, planes and other violent toys, they engage in “contact sports” that glorify violence and the ability to overcome the other team, they are expected to become ruthless and powerful business executives, destroying their competitors, they are encouraged to join the military and serve their countries by attacking “enemy” states or groups of people.

Don’t expect the movies industry, the television industry, the toys industry or advertising companies to care and change their actions because of their part in gender-based violence or the image of women in society. They won't! It is not profitable to care!

Poverty, particularly for women, is more than income deficiency. Women not only continue to lag behind men in control over the means of production such as cash, credit and collateral, but they are also disadvantaged by other forms of impoverishment in areas such as literacy, education, skills, employment opportunities, mobility, political representation and the expectation from them to spend their time and energy only on taking care of the children.
These factors diminish women’s development capacity and affect their health status both directly and indirectly. For these reasons, women are often poorer relatively to men of the same household and social group.

The multiple roles that women fulfill in society render them at greater risk of experiencing mental problems than others in the community. Women bear the burden of responsibility associated with being wives, mothers and the ones that care for others. Increasingly, women are becoming an essential part of the labour force and in one-quarter to one-third of households they are the prime source of income.
Women are much more likely to suffer obsessive-compulsive disorder, somatization disorder, and panic disorder.

Women living in poor social and environmental circumstances with associated low education, low income and difficult family and marital relationships, are much more likely than other women to suffer from mental disorders. The combined impact of gender and low socio-economic status are critical determinants of mental ill.

Women shouldn’t suffer silently until they are equal to men.
Black people shouldn’t wait until they will be equal to white people.
Poor people shouldn’t wait until their lives become more important than billionaire’s profits.
Non-human animals should not wait until the world will change from "might is right" to "all who can suffer has rights".