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17.6 % of women in the United States have survived a completed or attempted rape. Of these, 21.6% were younger than age 12 when they were first raped, and 32.4% were between the ages of 12 and 17. 64% of women who reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since age 18 were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date.
Only about half of domestic violence incidents are reported to police.
African-American women are more likely than others to report their victimization to police.
The FBI estimates that only 37% of all rapes are reported to the police. U.S. Justice Department statistics are even lower, with only 26% of all rapes or attempted rapes being reported to law enforcement officials.
The National College Women Sexual Victimization Study estimated that between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 college women experience completed or attempted rape during their college years. Men perpetrate the majority of violent acts against women.
Every 90 seconds, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted.
According to the 2000 National Crime Victimization Survey, 62% of rape and sexual assault victims knew the perpetrator. Sexual violence is associated with a host of short- and long-term problems, including physical injury and illness, psychological symptoms, economic costs, and death.
About half of all rape victims are in the lowest third of income distribution; half are in the upper two-thirds.
Domestic violence occurs in approximately 25-33% of same-sex relationships.
Boys who witness their fathers’ violence are 10 times more likely to engage in spouse abuse in later adulthood than boys from non-violent homes.
An estimated 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United States annually for sexual exploitation or forced labor.
Somewhere in America a woman is battered, usually by her intimate partner, every 15 seconds.
A University of Pennsylvania research study found that domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to low-income, inner-city Philadelphia women between the ages of 15 to 44 – more common than automobile accidents, mugging and rapes combined.
At least 60 million girls who would otherwise be expected to be alive are “missing” from various populations, mostly in Asia, as a result of sex-selective abortions, infanticide or neglect.
Globally, at least one in three women and girls had been beaten or sexually abused in her lifetime.
In a recent survey by the Kenyan Women Rights Awareness Program, 70% of the men and women interviewed said they knew neighbors who beat their wives. Nearly 60% said women were to blame for the beatings. Just 51% said the men should be punished. 4 million women and girls are trafficked annually. An estimated one million children, mostly girls, enter the sex trade each year.
In Bangladesh, 47 % of adult women report physical assault by a male partner (UNFPA)
In a study of 475 people in prostitution from five countries (South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA, and Zambia): 62% reported having been raped in prostitution. 73% reported having experienced physical assault in prostitution. 92% stated that they wanted to escape prostitution immediately.
So-called “honour killings” take thelives of thousands of young women every year, mainly in North Africa, Western Asia and parts of South Asia. In 1999, more than 1000 women in Pakistan were victims of honour crimes.
More than 90 million African women and girls are victims of female circumcision or other forms of genital mutilation. (Heise: 1994)
In Uganda HIV infection is 6 times higher among young girls than boys with the difference in rates beginning as early as 9 years old and reaching a peak for the age-12-19 years old. This is due to old men seeking young girls for sexual exploitation with the belief that they are free from HIV.
In Canada, 62% of women murdered in 1987 died at hands of an intimate male partner.
In Zimbabwe, domestic violence accounts for more than 60% of murder cases that go through the high court in Harare.
A study in Zaria, Nigeria found that 16 percent of hospital patients treated for sexually transmitted infections were under 5.