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Somalia's problems have spilled beyond its borders, with a constant flow of refugees being smuggled in by leaky boats to Yemen and even more walking south to Kenya. There are more than 200,000 people crowded into the world's biggest refugee camp, at Dadaab, 62 miles (100 km) south of the frontier; some 5,000 new refugees arrive every month...
Three Scandinavian countries—Norway, Finland, and Sweden—took top honors among the 130 countries in the study, while Saudi Arabia, Chad, and Yemen were deemed the least equitable, ranking 128th, 129th, and 130th, respectively...
...What is] troubling...is that Muslim countries tend to do much much worse” in the rankings,” Hausmann said. “This is not true for all Muslim countries, but at the bottom of the pile you have Pakistan, you have Yemen, and you have Saudi Arabia...because they have very restrictive legislation on what women...
...suppression of apostasy, or religious disaffiliation, with the growth of Orthodox politics in Yemen was the focus of a talk given yesterday by Stacey Philbrick Yadav, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies...
...Trinidad and Tobago was the highest ranked Latin American country. Guatemala's gap widened considerably, with the country falling from #61 in 2007 to #113 in 2008. Israel had the highest score in the Middle East, with Kuwait coming in second for the region and Yemen - which has closed just 47% of its gender gap - coming in last at #130 overall. Only two African countries are in the top 20, Lesotho #16 and Mozambique #18; big drops in ranks were seen in Zambia, Angola, Ethiopia, Benin and Chad...