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Facts and Figures: Ending Violence against Women
A Pandemic in Diverse Forms
Extra Vulnerabilities
The High Cost of Violence
Notes
[1] World Health Organization, Global and Regional
Estimates of Violence against Women, http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85239/1/9789241564625_eng.pdf,
p. 2. For individual country information, see full compilation of data in
UN Women, 2012, Violence against
Women Prevalence Data: Surveys by Country.
[2] UNODC Global Study on Homicide: 2013 http://www.unodc.org/documents/gsh/pdfs/2014_GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_BOOK_web.pdf
,
[3] Violence against women: an EU-wide survey, European
Union, 2014, Foreword, p. 3.
[4] Ending Child Marriage: Progress and Prospects, http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Marriage_Report_7_17_LR..pdf
[5] UNICEF, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Statistical Analysis
of Violence against Children http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Hidden_in_plain_sight_statistical_analysis_Summary_EN_2_Sept_2014.pdf
[6] Hidden in Plain Sight: A Statistical Analysis of
Violence against Children (UNICEF) http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Hidden_in_plain_sight_statistical_analysis_Summary_EN_2_Sept_2014.pdf
[7] UNICEF, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: What might
the future hold, http://www.unicef.org/media/files/FGM-C_Report_7_15_Final_LR.pdf
[8] Figure derived from data based on a 2002-2011
reference period. International Labour Organization, 2012, “ILO Global
Estimate of Forced Labour: Results and Methodology,” p. 14, Geneva.
[9] Directorate-General for Employment, Industrial
Relations and Social Affairs, 1998, “Sexual harassment at the workplace in the
European Union,” p. iii, Brussels, European Commission. Cited in UN General
Assembly, 2006, “In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence against Women: Report
of the Secretary-General,” A/61/122/Add.1,
p. 42, New York.
[10] Based on a nationally representative study among
female and male students in grades 8 through 11. American Association of
University Women, 2001, “Hostile Hallways: Bullying, Teasing, and Sexual
Harassment in School,” p. 4, Washington, DC. Cited in UN General Assembly,
2006, “In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence against Women: Report of the
Secretary-General,” A/61/122/Add.1,
p. 42, New York.
[11] F. Vanderschueren, 2000, “The Prevention of Urban
Crime.” Paper presented at the Africities 2000 Summit, Windhoek, Namibia. Cited
in UN-HABITAT, 2006, State of the World’s Cities 2006/2007, p. 144,
Nairobi.
[12] JAGORI and UN Women (2010). Report on the
Baseline Survey. Available at: http://jagori.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Baseline-Survey_layout_for-Print_12_03_2011.pdf.
[13] World Health Organization and UNAIDS, 16 Ideas for
addressing violence against women in the context of the HIV epidemic, http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/95156/1/9789241506533_eng.pdf?ua=
, p.1
[14] Rachel K. Jewkes and Robert Morell., “Gender and
sexuality: emerging perspectives from the heterosexual epidemic in South Africa
and implications for HIV risk and prevention”, J Int AIDS Soc. 2010; 13: 6.
[15] Based on a nationally representative study. J.
Sareen, J. Pagura and B. Grant, 2009, “Is Intimate Partner Violence Associated
with HIV Infection among Women in the United States?” General Hospital
Psychiatry, 31(3), p. 277, Manitoba.
[16] Figure includes direct health costs and indirect
productivity losses from intimate partner violence based on 1995 annual
estimates. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2003, Costs of
Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States, p. 2,
Atlanta, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cited in UN General
Assembly, 2006, “In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence against Women: Report
of the Secretary-General,” A/61/122/Add.1,
p. 137, New York.
[17] Figure includes direct and indirect individual,
employer and State expenses related to violence. S. Walby, 2004, The Costs
of Domestic Violence, p. 12, Leeds, Women and Equality Unit and University
of Leeds.
[18] Data calculated for both intimate partner and
non-partner violence based on estimated prevalence rates for 2007–2008,
including direct and indirect individual and public costs related to suffering,
health, legal and employment expenses, among others. The National Council to
Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, 2009, The Cost of Violence
against Women and their Children, p. 4, Canberra, Commonwealth of
Australia.
[19] UN Women Viet Nam. Estimating the
cost of domestic violence against women in Viet Nam, December
2012.
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