“More than a third of women and girls—over one billion people—experience intimate partner violence or non-partner physical or sexual violence in their lifetime” The list of gender-based violence is terrifyingly long. From domestic abuse, economic violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, coercion, cyber violence, female genital mutilation, honour killing, infanticide, forced unions and child marriages, to human trafficking—these deplorable acts don’t just happen behind closed doors, but in broad daylight as well.
While GBV can happen to anyone, the majority who survive these cases are women and young girls. According to data accrued by the Lancet, ‘more than a third of women and girls—over one billion people—experience intimate partner violence or non-partner physical or sexual violence in their lifetime’. The article also states that though the ‘lifetime prevalence of childhood…
