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A recent survey by the Kenyan Women Rights Awareness Program revealed that 70% of those that were interviewed said they knew neighbours who beat their wives. Nearly 60% said women were to blame for the beatings. Just 51% said the men should be punished.

(The New York Times, 10/31/97)

A 2005 study reported that 7% of partnered Canadian women experienced Violence at the hands of a spouse between 1999 and 2004. Of these battered women, nearly one-quarter (23%) reported being beaten, choked, or threatened with a knife or gun.

(Family Violence in Canada, 2005)

In Eastern and Southern Africa, 17 to 22% of girls aged 15 to 19 are HIV-positive, compared to 3 to 7% of boys of similar age. This pattern—seen in many other regions of the world—is evidence that girls are being infected with HIV by a much older cohort of men

(UNICEF/UNAIDS, 2007)

A 2005 World Health Organization study reported that nearly one third of Ethiopian women had been physically forced by a partner to have sex against their will within the 12 months prior to the study.

(WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women, 2005)

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.

(UN Study On The Status of Women, Year 2000)