SHOCKFACTS: Violence against women

November 17, 1993
Issue 
592

  • At least one-third of all women have been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in their lifetime.

  • More than 60 million women are "missing" from the world today due to sex-selective abortions and female infanticide.

  • Every year, millions of women are raped by partners, relatives, friends and strangers, by employers and colleagues, soldiers and members of armed groups.

  • Up to 70% of female murder victims are killed by their male partners.

  • Small arms and light weapons are the main tools of almost every conflict, and women and children account for nearly 80% of the casualties.

[Source: < http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/index-A HREF="mailto:eng"><eng>. Got a SHOCKFACT? Send it to <glw@greenleft.org.au>.]

From Green Left Weekly, August 4, 2004.
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