雅思阅读材料之世界上最不适合女性居住的地方.docxVIP

智课网IELTS备考资料雅思阅读材料之世界上最不适合女性居住的地方 Somalia is not a great place to be woman 索马里不是一个女人待的好地方 My interest in Somalia grew out of the fact that it’s considered to be one of the worst places on Earth to be a woman. It has near-universal female genital mutilation. Women are locked out of healthcare, so the figures on infant mortality and death during childbirth are unknown, but certainly terrible. It has widespread domestic violence and, on top of that, 20 years of complete instability in which women were forced to flee their homes. In south-central Somalia you also have the impact of the Shabab [an Islamist militia]. 我对索马里的兴趣，源于这样一个事实，索马里被认为是这个世界上最不适合女人居住的地方。几乎所有的女性生殖器都有被残害。妇女们被医疗保健拒之门外，所以，婴儿的死亡人数和分娩时期死亡的人数是无人知晓的，但是这铁定是一惊人的数字。家暴现象是相当普遍的，另外，20年的动荡，大量的妇女被迫远离家乡。在索马里中南部，还要遭受沙巴布民兵的骚扰。 What is the impact of the Shabab on women? 沙巴布民兵对妇女的影响，是个什么情况？ They have been terrorising women. It’s hard to know about Shabab-controlled areas because there has been no humanitarian access, so measuring the levels of sexual violence and attacks on women has been extremely difficult. That is not to say it is not happening. When I was there in 2011 I interviewed a young woman of 17 whose father had been killed. She was living in a camp, caring for her brothers and sisters, next door to another girl with whom she shared chores. Shabab showed up at the friend’s house wanting to marry the girl. A lot of people reject the term forced marriage because what you are really talking about is sexual slavery. The girl’s father refused, so the Shabab killed him. They dug a hole in front of her friend’s hut, dragged her friend out, buried her up to the neck in sand and stoned her to death. Then she herself was gang-raped by five Shabab militiamen in front of her brothers and sisters. 他们一直以来都在恐吓妇女。在没有人道主义渠道的情境下，要知道沙巴布民兵控制的区域情况是很难的，要了解性暴力的程度，还有女性所受到的攻击，更是难上加难。但是这并不是说没有性暴力。2011年我在那里的时候有采访过一个17岁的年轻妇女，她的父亲被杀害了。她住在难民集中营，照顾她的兄弟姐妹们，与隔壁的另一个姑娘一起分担家务。沙巴布民兵来到她这位朋友的家里，想要娶她。在那里，很多人都反对“逼婚”，因为其实质就是性奴隶