Women in developing countries face many health, safety, and social issues. They have increased risks of maternal mortality during childbirth, contracting diseases like HIV/AIDS, and experiencing violence. Additionally, women often do not receive adequate education, medical care, or nutrition. Governments also frequently deny women property rights and legal protections. To improve conditions for women, governments should implement programs that provide education opportunities, access to healthcare, and protect women's basic human rights.

1. Women's Issues in Developing Countries
- By Tamera Sucaet -
Women in Developing Countries
Have a high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS Receive little or no education
Have a high risk of maternal mortality during childbirth Receive less nutrition and medical care
Get married and have kids at a very young age Have a higher birth rate
Have a higher risk for sexual violence Are denied property rights
Are victims of honor killings Have no legal protection
Have a high risk of sexual exploitation Have no access to sanitary drinking water

2. Violent Situations Women who live in developing countries are
often exposed to dangerous situations like
sexual violence, honor killings,sexual
exploitation, and risk of contraction HIV/AIDS.
Their governments give them no protecion Governmental policy in developing
when violent situations occur. Many times should be changed so that women are
these women are denied property protected from these harmful
rights,and have no legal protection. situations

3. Health care needs
Women who live in
developing countries
have increase health care
concerns such as
increased risk for
HIV/AIDS, high risk of
mortality during childbirth,
receive less nutritional
and medical care, and
they have a higher birth
rate.
Along with these inceased
health care risk is a lack
of access to the health
care services, and a lack
of control over decisions
such as health care and
family planning

4. Human rights
 Apply to all individuals
regardless of race, sex,
country of origin, religion,
language, etc.
 Includes the rights of life,
expression, equality,
education, employment, and
access to food.
 This argument would be the
ethical theory rights, and the
ethical principle of justice
Source: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx

5. Women's Issues related to When beneficial governmental programs are
Hunger implemented and succeed in helping people, the
result can lead to more individual freedom and
greater access to food and resources
When women do not
get an education
they decrease their
chance to make
more money and
increases their
chances to go
hungry.
Since women get less
nutrition and health
care than men, it
increases their
chances of
starvation.
Women who die
during childbirth
are usually
Source: http://www.who.int/hhr/HHR%20linkages.pdf
undernourished

6. Ethical questions
What can be done to improve a woman's standard
of living in developing countries?
– provide more opportunities for women to
earn education
– improve access to health care facilities and
family planning services

7. References
Cohen, M. F. (2006). The Codition of Women in Developing and Developed Countries. The Independent
Review, 9, 261-273.
Haub, C., & Sharma, O.P.(2006). India's Population Reality: Reconciling Change and Tradition. Population
Bulletin, 61, 3-19.
United Nations, “The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009” United Nations, 2009.
United Nations Development Fund for Women, “Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009 Who Answers for
Women? Gender and Accountability” United Nations, 2008/2009.
United States Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, “List of Human Rights Issues”.
World Health Organization, “Linkages Between Health and Human Rights”.