World's Worst Place to Be a Woman?
Stacey Dooley visits Honduras, a country with an especially high murder rate of young females, to see how the social and political situation for women might be improved there.
Stacey Dooley presents the second of two hard-hitting films from the worst places in the world to be female, to investigate why some young women today live in such dangerous, desperate and degrading conditions.
She travels to Honduras, known as murder capital of the world, where 16 women are murdered during Stacey's short trip. In a country with little justice for women and the highest murder rate for young females, how are such endemic issues being tackled?
Violence against women is so common in Honduras that it has a special name - femicide. A woman is murdered every 13 hours here and Stacey discovers that very little is being done to address it. She meets with women who model to earn money needed to escape their violent and dangerous environments, but as Stacey discovers, it's dangerous to be a beautiful woman here.
She meets Theresa Munoz, the mother of Miss Honduras Maria Jose Alvarado and her sister Sofia, who were shot dead by Sofia's boyfriend at a party. Yet with people too afraid to come forward with testimonies, the police reveal it's likely their killer will walk free.
Stacey also meets some of the young women who've had enough and are campaigning for change, when she spends a night with a group of female students demanding more rights for women. At 3am, as they try to evade the police and put up posters before they are torn down, Stacey finds out just how difficult making a change can be.
In Honduras, the Catholic government ban on abortion and the contraceptive pill means that rape victims, often as young as 11, are forced to give birth whilst only children themselves. As the list of questions grows, Stacey visits the district attorney, only to find them unwilling to face her questions.
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"That is someone's mum, that is someone's sister"
Duration: 01:01
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Murdered at a party
Duration: 01:07
Music Played
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Bonobo
Cirrus
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Indiana
Blind As I Am
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Nelly Furtado
No Hay Igual (feat. Calle 13)
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The Bug feat. Liz Harris
Void
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Two Fingers
Fools Rhythm
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The Heavy
Be Mine
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Lapalux
There Is No Way Back
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Maribou State
Rituals
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Ben Howard
Oats In The Water
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Stacey Dooley |
Executive Producer | Mark Rubens |
Production Company | Twenty Twenty TV |
Broadcasts
- Mon 26 Oct 2015 21:00
- Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:00
- Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:55
- Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:00
- Mon 2 Nov 2015 02:15
- Thu 12 Nov 2015 23:35麻豆社 One except Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD
- Fri 13 Nov 2015 00:15麻豆社 One Northern Ireland HD & Northern Ireland only
- Mon 30 Nov 2015 01:50
- Sat 5 Dec 2015 03:00
- Tue 5 Jun 2018 23:30麻豆社 One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Scotland & Scotland HD
- Wed 6 Jun 2018 00:00麻豆社 One Northern Ireland HD & Northern Ireland only
- Wed 6 Jun 2018 00:30麻豆社 One Scotland HD & Scotland only
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