AFGHANISTAN has been rated the worst country in the world to be a woman because of out-of-control violence, poor healthcare and extreme poverty.
The Democratic Republic of Congo comes a close second because of the number of rapes there - more than 1000 every day.
Pakistan, India and Somalia came next in the survey, which measured threats to women ranging from domestic violence and discrimination to genital mutilation and sex trafficking.
The poll found that about "90 per cent of trafficking took place within the country and that there were some 3 million prostitutes, of which about 40 per cent were children".
Pakistan came under fire for its high rates of honour killings and child marriages.
The survey found that militia groups and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo targeted all ages, including girls as young as three and elderly women.
"They are gang raped, raped with bayonets and some have guns shot into their vaginas," the survey says.
Afghanistan was rated the worst because of high mortality rates, limited access to doctors and a "near total lack of economic rights" in addition to the continuing war there, NATO airstrikes and dangerous cultural practices.
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