Yet Another Scourge: A Third of All Women are Subjected to Violence

MADRID, Nov 23 (IPS) – Thirty percent of women and girls suffered physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, most frequently by an intimate partner. And more than 70 percent of all sold, bought and enslaved victims of human smuggling and trafficking are women and girls — three out of four of them are sexually exploited.

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