Gender-Based violence is an enourmous issue. Here are some statistics regarding the prevelance of gender-based violence.
Millions of girls and women are victims of oppressive violence:
- Worldwide, one in five women becomes a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime (U.N.).
- 80% of transnational human trafficking victims are women and girls (U.S. Department of State).
- In Uganda, 1 in 5 widows loses all or part of her inheritance through theft by relatives (PLAN).
these statistics are from IJM's website.
The following statistics come from a WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women.
- The combined prevalence of physical and sexual violence by a non-partner after the age of 15 years ranged from 5% in Ethiopia to 65% in Samoa. Higher levels of non-partner violence were reported in the urban settings than in the provincial settings in all countries except Peru.
- The proportion of ever-partnered women who had ever experienced physical or sexual violence, or both, by an intimate partner in their lifetime, ranged from 15% to 71%, with most sites falling between 29% and 62%.
- Japan also had the lowest level of sexual violence at 6%, with the highest figure of 59% being reported in Ethiopia.
- The proportion of women physically forced into intercourse ranged from 4% in Serbia and Montenegro to 46% in provincial Bangladesh and Ethiopia
- Nearly one third of Ethiopian women reported being physically forced by a partner to have sex against their will within the past 12 months. This high rate of forced sex is particularly alarming in the light of the AIDS epidemic and the difficulty that many women have in protecting themselves from HIV infection.
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