Say NO to violence against women

Hello readers!

As we all know, yesterday, 25th November was the international day in which we say NO to violence against women. Violence against women is a consequence of discrimination against women, in law and also in practise, and of persisting inequalities between men and women. There are three different ways of mistreating people: psychologically, physically and sexually.

The 31 % of women have experienced one or more acts of physical violence since the age of 15. While women are most likely to indicate that they were pushed or shoved, excluding this form of violence has only a limited effect on the overall prevalence of physical violence, bringing it down from 31 % to 25 %.

These are some of the characteristics of sexual violence:

• In total, 11 % of women have experienced some form of sexual violence since they were 15 years old,
either by a partner or some other person.
• One in 20 women (5 %) has been raped since the age of 15.
• Of those women who indicate they have been victims of sexual violence by a non-partner, almost one
in 10 women indicates that more than one perpetrator was involved in the incident when describing the
details of the most serious incident of sexual violence they have experienced.

And these are some of the details of intimate partner violence:

• One third of victims (34 %) of physical violence by a previous partner experienced four or more
different forms of physical violence.
• The most common forms of physical violence involve pushing or shoving, slapping or grabbing, or
pulling a woman’s hair.

As a conclusion, we can say that many women are mistreated all over the world. This article has been written by my classmate Ainhoa and I, and we think that we all must do something to stop this. The information which we added have been chosen from an official web page. If you are interested in reading more, click here.