male violence against women and girls is a phenomenon with characteristics of a pandemic, taking into account the extension that appears in our societies and the high impact it has on the lives and health of those affected, their families and the community. There is no country that is completely free of this scourge, even the most developed countries are moving towards gender equality. In fact it is clear that it takes more than ever a broad mobilization of civil society that demands the eradication of these violent behaviors that are expressed in all areas, both private and public, and also demand severe punishment for men who engage in them. However, the need more urgent is to build social structures that allow the power residing in the male domination, and the burden falls on the subordination of women.
This abominable discrimination lies at the root of all expressions of gender-based violence as it holds that the value of women is lower than men and that being a woman means you can be disciplined through the shock.
For context, we offer below a series of campaign data compiled by the UN, which realize the seriousness of this phenomenon:
• In a study made by the World Health Organization (WHO) on violence home in 10 countries indicated that between 15 and 71 percent of women reported physical or sexual violence from their spouses and partners.
• Among women aged 15 to 44 years, acts of violence cause more deaths and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined.
• An estimated 150 million girls under 18 experienced some form of sexual violence only in 2002.
• Up to 1 in 4 women experience physical violence and / or sexual violence during pregnancy, increasing the chance of spontaneous abortion, induced abortion or giving birth to a stillborn child. Up to 53% of women physically abused by their intimate partners are kicked or punched in the abdomen.
• In São Paulo, Brazil, a woman is assaulted every 15 seconds.
• In Ecuador, the adolescents who reported sexual violence at school a teacher identified as the perpetrator in 37% of cases.
• In Guatemala, two women are killed every day on average.
• Women and girls make up 80% of the estimated 800,000 people are subjected to trafficking annually, and most (79%) are trafficked for sexual exploitation.
• Approximately 100 to 140 million girls and women worldwide have undergone FGM / FGC, in Africa more than 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the practice annually.
• More than 60 million girls worldwide are wives, girls. Crowd of girls are married before 18 years mainly in South Asia (31.1 million) and Sub-Saharan Africa (14.1 million).
• Between 250,000 and 500,000 women and girls were raped during the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
• In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have been reported since 1996 at least 200,000 cases of sexual violence mostly committed against women and girls, although it is believed that the real figure is much higher.
• Domestic violence costs only about 1.16 billion U.S. dollars in Canada and 5.8 billion U.S. dollars in the United States. In Australia, violence against women and children have an estimated cost of 11.38 billion U.S. $ per year. • Between 40 and 50% of women of European Union countries experiencing sexual innuendo, unwanted physical contact or other forms of sexual harassment in the workplace.
• In the U.S., 83% of girls between 12 and 16 years old experienced some form of sexual harassment in public school.
So ... When we get to universal culture incorporate 21 st century and validate a new relationship between women and men, a relationship that is based on respect, peace, equality and justice, only then can the eradication effective for all types of violation of human rights of women.
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