"Nearly one in three women totalling about 840 million around the world have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence in their lifetimes, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report. Released on Wednesday, it also found 316 million women and girls aged 15 and older were subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner over the past year."
"Violence against women is one of humanity's oldest and most pervasive injustices yet still one of the least acted upon, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement accompanying the findings. No society can call itself fair, safe or healthy while half its population lives in fear. Ending this violence is not only a matter of policy; it is a matter of dignity, equality and human rights. Behind every statistic is a woman or girl whose life has been forever altered."
Nearly one in three women—about 840 million globally—have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence in their lifetimes. An estimated 316 million women and girls aged 15 and older experienced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in the past year, about 11 percent of that age group. Violence against women is pervasive yet remains critically underfunded: only 0.2 percent of global aid went to prevention programmes in 2022, with funding falling further amid cuts to some countries' foreign aid. Women and girls in conflict zones and other vulnerable situations face especially high risk, worsening as armed conflicts rise and prolong.
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