Of those women, more than one in three got married before Women and girls together account for 71 percent of all human trafficking victims detected globally, with girls representing nearly three out of every four trafficked children.
Violence and poverty: a vicious cycle We believe that violence against women and girls is one of the most significant barriers to our mission to end poverty. We can change this We can change the harmful beliefs at the core of this problem. Tagged with.
But even where good response systems are in place, many perpetrators continue to feel justified or permitted in abusing women. And this is where the complexity comes in. The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women recognised violence against women as a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, both arising from and reinforcing gender inequality and discrimination.
But the development of prevention programmes requires an unpacking of just how this unequal power manifests in different contexts and on different scales — from individual relationships to global negotiations — in order to effectively target interventions.
Volumes have been researched and written about the causes of violence against women since the Declaration, teasing out greater and greater detail on the factors contributing to violence against women in different environments.
The largest or all-encompassing circle represents the societal level. At the community level, other contributing factors begin to emerge, compounding those at the societal level. Isolation of women from support mechanisms, and the lack of safe spaces for women and girls to freely communicate and develop friendships and social networks have been found to contribute to violence and compound its impacts.
Attitudes that condone or tolerate violence are recognised as playing a central role in shaping the way individuals, organisations and communities respond to violence. VicHealth has summarised five key categories of violence supportive attitudes that arise from research.
These include attitudes that:. VicHealth has a number of useful publications and research that discuss current attitudes around violence against women.
Useful statistics Research Communication tools Latest news Get involved. In this section: What is violence against women? Globally, an estimated million women—almost one in three—have been subjected to intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both at least once in their life 30 per cent of women aged 15 and older. This figure does not include sexual harassment. The rates of depression, anxiety disorders, unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV are higher in women who have experienced violence compared to women who have not, as well as many other health problems that can last even after the violence has ended [ 1 ].
Most violence against women is perpetrated by current or former husbands or intimate partners. More than million women aged 15 and older have been subjected to intimate partner violence 26 per cent of women aged 15 and older [ 1 ]. Sixteen per cent of young women aged 15 to 24 experienced this violence in the past 12 months [ 1 ]. These numbers do not reflect the impact of the COVID pandemic , which has increased risk factors for violence against women [ 1 ].
Calls to helplines have increased five-fold in some countries as rates of reported intimate partner violence increase because of the COVID pandemic. By September , 52 countries had integrated prevention and response to violence against women and girls into COVID response plans , and countries had adopted measures to strengthen services for women survivors of violence during the global crisis, but more efforts are urgently needed [ 3 ].
Globally, 6 per cent of women report they have been subjected to sexual violence from someone other than their husband or partner. However, the true prevalence of non-partner sexual violence is likely to be much higher, considering the particular stigma related to this form of violence [ 1 ].
One hundred thirty-seven women are killed by a member of their family every day. It is estimated that of the 87, women who were intentionally killed in globally, more than half 50, were killed by intimate partners or family members.
More than one third 30, of the women intentionally killed in were killed by their current or former intimate partner [ 4 ]. Fewer than 40 per cent of the women who experience violence seek help of any sort. In the majority of countries with available data on this issue, among women who do seek help, most look to family and friends, and very few look to formal institutions, such as police and health services.
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