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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Equality Now | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-30T23:51:48Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-30T23:51:48Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/20217 | - |
| dc.language | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Equality Now | en |
| dc.subject | Legislation | en |
| dc.subject | Rape | en |
| dc.subject | Policies | en |
| dc.subject | Social attitudes | en |
| dc.subject | Government | en |
| dc.title | The world's shame : the global rape epidemic | en |
| dc.type | Report | en |
| dc.identifier.catalogid | 14592 | en |
| dc.identifier.url | http://bit.ly/2mycZfH | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | new_record | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Rape | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Laws | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Social conditions | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | International | en |
| dc.subject.keyword | Invalid URL | en |
| dc.description.notes | "Around the world, rape and sexual abuse are everyday violent occurrences -- affecting close to a billion women and girls over their lifetimes. However, despite the pervasiveness of these crimes, laws are insufficient, inconsistent, not systematically enforced and, sometimes,<br/ >promote violence. Since Equality Now's founding in 1992, we have worked with survivors of rape and sexual assault to help them get justice and to push for measures to bring an end to this unacceptable crime. This report looks at how laws around the world are still failing to protect women and girls from sexual violence.<br/ ><br/ >According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. According to UNICEF, around 120 million girls worldwide, just over 1 in 10, have<br/ >experienced "forced intercourse or other forced sexual acts" at some point in their lives. Everyone reading this report is likely to have either survived, or to know someone who has experienced, some form of sexual violence.<br/ ><br/ >By any measure, gender-based violence, including sexual violence, is being inflicted on women and girls in epidemic proportions. If it were a medical disease, sexual violence would have the serious attention and the funding to address it, from governments and independent donors alike. Sexual violence is inflicted on men and boys as well as on women and girls. However, since many laws contain explicit discrimination against women and girls and since perpetrators of rape are almost exclusively male and the vast proportion of survivors of sexual violence women and girls, this report is largely written from that perspective. We wanted also to underscore the predominantly gendered nature of rape - that is of male sexual violence against women – to highlight how this violence and discrimination not only influences the way laws are written and carried out, but how sexual violence against women and girls is a form of discrimination itself that needs to be addressed if sexual violence against women and girls is to be eradicated."<br/ >from Exec Summary<br/ >open source | en |
| dc.date.entered | 2017-03-07 | en |
| dc.publisher.place | New York | en |
| Appears in Collections: | Reports | |
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