Male Violence Against Women: some numbers

Worldwide, male violence against women is the cause of more deaths and disability around the world in 15 to 44 year-olds than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war, COMBINED.

In Europe, more women are killed or injured by domestic violence than by cancer or road accidents. The council of Europe has stated that domestic violence is the biggest cause of disability for all women aged 16 to 44.

In the UK, one in four women experience domestic violence in their lifetime and between 1 in 8 to 1 in 10 experience it annually.

Less than half of all incidents are reported to the police, but they still receive a domestic violence call every minute in the UK.

Women are ten times more likely to be victimised by an intimate.

In the US, a woman is beaten every 18 minutes. In Peru, 70% of all crimes reported involve women beaten by their husbands. In Russia, one woman in five is regularly beaten by her partner. In India and Bangladesh, women are killed or burned with acid for not bringing enough dowry into their husband's family when they marry.

At least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime, according to a study based on fifty surveys from around the world.

The world health organization has reported that up to 70% of female murder victims are killed by their male partners.

Worldwide in 2006, 70% of the casualties in conflicts were non-combatants, most of them women and children.

Systematic rape is used as a weapon of terror in many of the world's conflicts. It is estimated that between 250 000 to 500 000 women in Rwanda were raped during the 1994 genocide.

30% of the people in the UK think that violence against women is OK and 50% think that domestic violence should be kept behind closed doors.

These statistics were presented in The Angry Hippies Podcast, episode n° 20.