Violence Against Women
Facts everyone should know
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Whether at home, on the streets or during war, violence against women and girls is a human rights violation of pandemic proportions that takes place in public and private spaces.
Intimate Partner Violence
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What is
intimate partner violence?
Intimate partner violence is any behaviour by a current or former partner or spouse that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm. This is one of the most common forms of violence experienced by women globally.
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1 in 3
Worldwide, 1 in 3 women have experienced physical or sexual violence — mostly by an intimate partner. When accounting for sexual harassment, this figure is even higher.
3 in 5
Worldwide, almost 3 in 5 women killed were killed by their partners or family in 2017.
Source Global and regional estimates of violence against women, WHO, 2013;
Global Study on Homicide 2019, UNODC, 2019
Global Study on Homicide 2019, UNODC, 2019
Laws must protect women
- 3/4Almost three quarters of the world’s countries have outlawed domestic violence.
Source Women, Business and the Law 2018,
World Bank Group, 2018
World Bank Group, 2018
Sexual Violence
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What is
sexual violence?
Sexual violence is any sexual act committed against the will of another person, either when this person does not give consent or when consent cannot be given because the person is a child, has a mental disability, or is severely intoxicated or unconscious as a result of alcohol or drugs.
Sexually violent acts can take place in different circumstances and settings.
These include, for example:
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment includes non-contact forms, like sexual comments about a person’s body parts or appearance, whistling, demands for sexual favors, sexually suggestive staring, stalking, and exposing one’s sexual organs at someone. It also includes physical contact forms, like grabbing, pinching, slapping, or rubbing against another person in a sexual way.Rape
Rape is non-consensual vaginal, anal or oral penetration of a sexual nature of the body of another person with any bodily part or object. This can be by persons known or unknown to the survivor, within marriage and relationships, and during armed conflict.
45% to 55%
of women have experienced sexual harassment since the age of 15 in the European Union.
Source Violence against women: An EU-wide survey, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2014
Human Trafficking
and Sexual Exploitation
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What is
human trafficking?
Human trafficking is the acquisition and exploitation of people, through means, such as force, fraud, coercion, or deception. This heinous crime ensnares millions of women and girls worldwide, many of whom are sexually exploited.
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Source Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, UNODC, 2018
Female Genital
Mutilation
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What is
female genital mutilation?
FGM includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Beyond extreme physical and psychological pain, the practice carries many health risks, including death.
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200Million
At least 200 million women and girls aged 15-49 have undergone FGM in 30 countries where representative data is available.
Age5
In most of these countries, the majority of girls were cut before age 5.
Child Marriage
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What is
the impact of child marriage?
Child marriage usually means an end to girl’s education, vocation and her right to make life choices. Research confirms that girls who marry in childhood are at greater risk for intimate partner violence than girls of the same age who marry later.
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650Million
women and girls alive today were married before their 18th birthday.
Almost4in10
girls in sub-Saharan Africa were married before age 18.
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