Women - Breaking the Shackles
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In the last 100 years, Western women fought for their rights and won, Arab women are still fighting.

As many as 5,000 women are accused of immorality and murdered by their families each year in ‘honor killings’
UNFPA

80 per cent of women surveyed in one Arab country said that beatings were common and in some Arab states husbands have the right to beat their wives.
UNFPA, City Journal

Arab women only have a 50% chance of being able to read.
US Dept of State

One in five Arab’s live on less than $2 a day.
BBC

Legal and social conditions mean that there is a slim chance women will ever cast an independent vote in an election.
FPIF

Arab women have been abandoned by their people, their government and by the international community. As long as Arab women continue suffering, Free Middle East is determined to wake up the world to their plight.

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