Yet measured in a different way, from the point of view of the half of the world's population that is female, argues the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, the world is an awfully violent place, and not just in its war zones. Men still fill most of the bodybags in wartime, including in civil wars, even on DCAF's figures, but their sisters, mothers, wives and daughters, it argues in a new report entitled "Women in an Insecure World", face nothing short of a "hidden gendercide".
Violence against women is nothing new. DCAF's contribution is to collate the many figures and estimates—not all of them easily verifiable, it has to be said—on everything from infanticide to rape (in both war and peace), dowry deaths, sex trafficking and domestic violence (in richer countries as well as poorer ones).
According to one UN estimate cited by DCAF, between 113m and 200m women are now demographically "missing". This gender gap is a result of the aborting of girl foetuses and infanticide in countries where boys are preferred; lack of food and medical attention that goes instead to brothers, fathers, husbands and sons, so-called "honour killings" and dowry deaths; and other sorts of domestic violence. It implies that each year between 1.5m and 3m women and girls are lost to gender based violence. In other words, every two to four years the world looks away from a victim count on the scale of Hitler's Holocaust.
Women between the ages of 15 and 44 are more likely to be maimed or die from violence inflicted one way or another by their menfolk than through cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war combined. Poor health care means that 600,000 women are lost each year to childbirth (a toll roughly equal annually to that of the Rwandan genocide). The World Health Organisation estimates that 6,000 girls a day (more than 2m a year), mostly in the poor world, undergo genital mutilation. Other WHO figures suggest that, around the world, one woman in five is likely to be a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.
In the narration of the first two paragraphs, the author employs the device of ______.
A. comparison
B. inversion
C. contrast
D. omission
Which of the followings could be the best title for the text?
A. Women in a poverty-stricken area.
B. Gender gap in the emerging economies.
C. Women in a hazardous world.
D. Gendercide in the western countries.
Which of the following could be the best title for the text?
A. Old wine, new bottle.
B. Mainstream media, nonsense.
C. Doomsayers, unwarranted arguments.
D. Fierce backlash, immorality.
下列有关法与道德、宗教、社会的关系表述错误的有:A.自然法学派认为只有体现道德内容的法律,才具有下列有关法与道德、宗教、社会的关系表述错误的有:
A. 自然法学派认为只有体现道德内容的法律,才具有法的品质
B. “使人向善”是法的价值与宗教在出发点和目的上的共同之处
C. “法物滋彰[上标]①,盗贼多有”说明法律不能作为社会调整的重要手段
D. 社会不是以法律为基础的,那是法学家的幻想。相反,法律应该以社会为基础,法律应该是社会共同的,由一定的物质生产方式所产生的利益需要的表现,而不是单个人的恣意横行。