United Nations Population Fund article
"Violence against women and girls is one of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world. It knows no social, economic or national boundaries. Worldwide, an estimated one in three women will experience physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime.
"Violence against women and girls is one of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world. It knows no social, economic or national boundaries. Worldwide, an estimated one in three women will experience physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime.
Gender-based
violence undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims,
yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. Victims of violence can suffer
sexual and reproductive health consequences, including forced and unwanted
pregnancies, unsafe abortions, traumatic fistula, sexually transmitted
infections including HIV, and even death."
Violence
against women and girls is one of the most prevalent human rights
violations in the world. It knows no social, economic or national
boundaries. Worldwide, an estimated one in three women will experience
physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime.
Gender-based violence undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims, yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. Victims of violence can suffer sexual and reproductive health consequences, including forced and unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, traumatic fistula, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and even death.
- See more at: http://www.unfpa.org/gender-based-violence#sthash.4Nmp7CZ7.dpuf
Gender-based violence undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims, yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. Victims of violence can suffer sexual and reproductive health consequences, including forced and unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, traumatic fistula, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and even death.
- See more at: http://www.unfpa.org/gender-based-violence#sthash.4Nmp7CZ7.dpuf
Violence
against women and girls is one of the most prevalent human rights
violations in the world. It knows no social, economic or national
boundaries. Worldwide, an estimated one in three women will experience
physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime.
Gender-based violence undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims, yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. Victims of violence can suffer sexual and reproductive health consequences, including forced and unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, traumatic fistula, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and even death.
- See more at: http://www.unfpa.org/gender-based-violence#sthash.4Nmp7CZ7.dpuf
Gender-based violence undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims, yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. Victims of violence can suffer sexual and reproductive health consequences, including forced and unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, traumatic fistula, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and even death.
- See more at: http://www.unfpa.org/gender-based-violence#sthash.4Nmp7CZ7.dpuf
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