Restored - Ending Violence Against Women

12:46 / 20 Apr 10

• At least one out of every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime. 
• Domestic violence is the largest form of abuse of women worldwide, irrespective of region, culture, ethnicity, education, class and religion.
• It is estimated that more than two million girls are genitally mutilated per year, a rate of one girl every fifteen seconds. 
• The number of women forced or sold into prostitution is estimated worldwide at anywhere between 700,000 and 4,000,000 per year. 
• Globally, women between the ages of 15-44 are more likely to be maimed or die as a result of male violence than through cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war combined.

Source: un.org

TOPICS: Churches, For corporate members, Men, Peer groups, Women, Youth
LOCALITY: Europe, United Kingdom