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Help Index--Sites helping women

"There are locks on the doors and chains stretch across all the entries to the inside.
There's a gate and a fence and bars to protect from only god knows what lurks outside.
Who stole your heart and left you with a space no one and nothing can fill,
and who took it away knowing that without it you can't live?
Who stole your heart, the smile from your face, the innocent light from your eyes?"
--Tracy Chapman, "Remember the Tinman"
New Beginnings

"Domestic violence is a leading cause of injury and death
to women worldwide. It is often ignored or even condoned
by the state on the grounds that it is a private matter."
--Joni Seager
The State of Women in the World Atlas, New Edition.


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 Athena: The Survivor's Anthology


28% of American women, 27% of Canadian women and 20% of Australian women also make that claim.


Candle Vigil
The Canadian Women's Internet Association Presents:
The Candlelight Vigil Across the Internet


In six years--from 1988 to 1993--over 20,000 women in India were burned to death in the street or committed suicide due to their inability to pay increased dowries.

In a single year, almost half of all murders committed in Russia were women killed by their spouses. In 1993, an additional 54,000 Russian women suffered serious or life-threatening injuries.


Purple Ribbon Awareness Campaign
Purple Ribbon
Wise Women of the Web
Abuse Survivors Network


A woman living in the United States of America has between a 1-in-5 and 1-in-7 chance of being the victim of rape in her lifetime.

There are an average of 92,000 rapes reported to the police in the U.S. in a year. However, the estimate of the number of rapes that actually occur is 310,000.

Rape in time of war was not made into a crime officially until 1996.

There are only 9 rape crisis centers in all of Mexico. And only 1 in each of the following countries: Japan, South Korea, Argentina and Bangladesh.


Lilith EmeraldLioness and Our House Productions
are proud to support:
Phenomenal Women of the Web Against Domestic Violence

AND

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children


Women make up over 36% of the world's work force.
Women own only 1% of the world's land.

Women living below the poverty level are increasing exponentially. Due to inequality of pay and lack of opportunity, it is much harder for women to prevent and escape from poverty.


SURVIVOR STORIES:

GhostWolf...Out of the Abyss


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Would you like to know more about the statistics of women in the world today? Please read:
THE STATE OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD ATLAS, second edition, Joni Seager.
1997, Penguin Press, London, UK.
ISBN:0-670-10008-0, hardcover; 0-14-051374-4, softcover.



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