Stacey Dooley: World’s Worst Place To Be A Woman (BBC Three preview)

In the final part of her two episode investigative series, Luton’s Stacey Dooley travels to the Central American republic of Honduras, a country with one of the highest murder rates for young females in the world.

Here, abortions and the contraceptive pill are banned. Looking into what life for women is like, Stacey spends the night with students campaigning for more rights for women and visits the Honduras district attorney’s office, only to be angered by the unwillingness to provide answers.

In British hospitals on a Friday night, you might find some patients who are intoxicated or have been on the wrong end of a drunken punch-up, but Stacey finds that in Honduras, police officers man every hospital corridor because, according to one junior doctor, “machetes are flying”.

So many women are killed each year that the crime even has its own name – femicide. To make matters worse, there’s little justice for the victims and their families.

In one particularly moving and angering scene, Stacey meets the mother of Miss Honduras Maria Jose Alvarado and her sister Sofia, who were shot dead by Sofia’s boyfriend at a party. However, so terrified are witnessed to speak up and give testimonies, the killer will probably never face justice.

Stacey Dooley Investigates: World’s Worst Place To Be A Woman is scheduled for broadcast tonight (26 October) at 9pm on BBC Three.

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