Sources for Christa Bennett's talk in Dixon Center Chapel

Forty-eight women raped every hour in Congo, study finds, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/12/48-women-raped-hour-congo

Facts about Violence

http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/facts.html

Violence against Women

http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_against_women/

The Women’s Crusade, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html

More than 100 million women are missing

http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/gender/Sen100M.html

Missing women revisited

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC286281/

In pictures: Fighting maternal mortality

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/south_asia_fighting_maternal_mortality/html/1.stm

Maternal mortality: How many children die in childbirth in your country?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/12/maternal-mortality-rates-millennium-development-goals#data
(Statistics in the above article were taken from “Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980—2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5”, 2010, http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2960518-1/fulltext)

Maternal Health in the US, 2010

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/campaigns/demand-dignity/maternal-health-is-a-human-right/maternal-health-in-the-us?id=1351091

US Dept of Justice: Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/181867.pdf

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence Facts

http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet(National).pdf

New Life for the Pariahs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01kristof.html

Commentary: The Asian enigma

http://www.unicef.org/pon96/nuenigma.htm

Fistula Foundation

www.fistulafoundation.org

World’s Women 2010: Trends & Statistics

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/Worldswomen/WW2010pub.htm

Women, Poverty, & Economics

http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/women_poverty_economics/

Columnist Nicholas Kristof: Educating girls is key to bringing about change worldwide, 2011

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/09/columnist_nicholas_kristof_edu.html

Explaining the recent decline in domestic violence

http://www.nasams.org/DMS/Documents/1195248210.25/Explaining%20Decline%20in%20Domestic%20Violence.pdf

Other sources about challenges facing women

A cry for justice: awakening the evangelical church to domestic violence in its midst

http://cryingoutforjustice.wordpress.com/

Acid attacks: A different kind of terrorism

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/29/opinion/1194834033797/acid-attack.html

Sudan: Authorities investigate whipping of woman on YouTube video

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/12/sudan-authorities-investigate-whipped-woman-video.html

Read more about Network for Africa, the charity that helps women and children rebuild their lives and communities after conflict and genocide

www.Network4Africa.org

http://Network4Africa.blogspot.com/

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