Violence on Women: The Different Forms, The Different Impacts, The Same On-going Issue

Violence on Women: The Different Forms, The Different Impacts, The Same On-going Issue

Our reporter Sobia Khan looks at the different forms of violence on women and discloses shocking statistics which demonstrate that attacks on women are very much alive in the UK where more focus needs to be emphasised on the growing problem before it worsens.

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Itemization of violence on women

There will never be a time where violence against women is not seen as a prevalent human rights abuse worldwide.

According to the End Violence Against Women (EVAW) Organisation, every single year across the UK, approximately 3 million women experience some form of violence.

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What is even more alarming is that there are many more women living with the affliction of mistreatment that have gone unreported.

The different forms of violence against women are:

• Rape and sexual violence crimes
• Forced marriage
• Female genital mutilation (FGM)
• Murders committed in the name of ‘honour’
• Sexual harassment and domestic violence
• Commercial sexual exploitation such as prostitution and     pornography
• Stalking

Misconception of rape & women

-     According to The Guardian, “a survey reported one in three women have reported some form of physical or sexual abuse since the age of 15, while 8% suffered some form of abuse in the last 12 months.”

-    “The same survey, based on interviews with 42,000 women across 28 EU member states, found extensive abuse across the continent, which typically goes unreported and undetected by the authorities.”

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The EVAW Coalition is a UK group of more than 60 women’s organisations, rape crisis being one of them, together working to end all forms of violence against women.

Sarah Green, part of EVAW coalition told The Realist: “We’re constantly surrounded by the idea that women make it up and that they make false allegations, there is authoritative government research that shows that there is not a high number of false allegation of rape.”

In fact, according to Rape crisis organisation, approximately, 85,000 women are raped on average in England and Wales every year.

The effects of violence on women

Violence and the threat of violence impact women globally, irrespective of culture, race, and wealth.

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The damage forces demoralizing physical and psychological bearings on women and has extensive costs for their loved ones, communities and societies.

Traditionally, violence against women, predominantly domestic violence, has been secreted, disregarded and absent from the humanrights agenda.

It is often seen as a 'private issue' or a ‘women's issue' which leads women rights campaigners to believe that it is not treated with the importance that it is worthy of. 

The government have a huge responsibility to try and put a stop to it and to equalize the suffering it causes women and girls.

Society’s perception on violence on women

In a survey for Amnesty International: ‘Over 1 in 4 respondents thought a woman was partially or totally responsible for being raped if she was wearing sexy or revealing clothing, and more than 1 in 5 held the same view if a woman had had many sexual partners.’ Amnesty UK (2005) Sexual Assault Research. Amnesty. London.                           
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Rape crisis found that large proportions, near enough to half their users, were abused as girls.

EVAW coalition labelled this a very ‘important fact’ that gives the public a better understanding of child sexual abuse and rape.

The future of violence against women

Photograph used from twitter.com/JanGrasty.

President of UK National Committee for GenderEquality & the Empowerment of Women, Jan Gratsy described violence against women as a ‘global pandemic’.

She added: “Sexual violence against women and girls is used as an instrumental war which is quite chilling and awful.”

In the media clip below, Jan Gratsy talks about the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence which is set to take place this summer in London.

Gratsy said: “People should endorse the summit as a great initiative by Foreign Secretary William Hague,” who will co-chair the summit with Angelina Jolie, to generate a sense of irreversible measures towards terminating the practice of sexual violence and rape.

Used from http://www.daily-sun.com.

Hopefully this summit sparks some kind of revolution towards cutting down the violence against women.

Or this will endlessly be a problem that will exacerbate over time.

Video used from www.youtube.com/user/GlobalPovertyProject.