Plus de 840 millions : Les chiffres effarants des femmes victimes de violences
According to a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and several UN agencies, violence against women remains one of the oldest and most neglected human rights violations. Despite two decades of advocacy, progress is virtually nonexistent. “Nearly one in three women, or 840 million women, have experienced domestic or sexual violence in their lifetime, a figure that has remained virtually unchanged since 2000,” the report explains. It adds that, “in the last 12 months alone, 316 million women, or 11% of women aged 15 and over, have experienced physical or sexual violence perpetrated by an intimate partner.” The average annual decrease, estimated at only 0.2%, illustrates the extremely slow pace of progress.
For the first time, the report also includes national and regional estimates of sexual violence perpetrated by someone other than a partner. It reveals that 263 million women have experienced this type of violence since the age of 15 – a figure very likely underestimated due to stigma and fear. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus denounces this untenable situation. “Violence against women is one of humanity’s oldest and most pervasive injustices, yet it remains one of the least addressed. No society can consider itself just or healthy when half its population lives in fear.” He emphasizes that behind every statistic lies a life destroyed. “Empowering women is not a choice. It is a prerequisite for peace, development, and health,” he says.
A crisis exacerbated by declining funding
The report, published just days before International Day on November 25, is based on an analysis of data from 168 countries between 2000 and 2023. It reveals that, despite a more nuanced understanding of effective prevention strategies, funding is collapsing. “In 2022, only 0.2% of global development aid was allocated to prevention programs. Worse still, this funding declined further in 2025. This disengagement is occurring while risks are increasing, amplified by humanitarian crises, digital technologies, and socio-economic inequalities,” the report states.
Risks throughout life
Violence often begins in adolescence. In the past year, 12.5 million girls aged 15 to 19, or 16%, experienced violence from an intimate partner. The consequences are numerous: unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, depression, and cycles of intergenerational violence. Women living in the least developed countries, those affected by conflict, or those vulnerable to climate change are particularly at risk. Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) has a prevalence rate of 38%, more than three times the global average. Some initiatives demonstrate that change is possible when there is strong political commitment: Cambodia, with legislative revisions, improved services, shelter renovations, and digital innovations in schools; Ecuador, Liberia, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago, with the adoption of costed and funded national action plans.
The report calls on governments to move from words to action by urgently funding the expansion of proven prevention programs, strengthening survivor-centered health, legal, and social services, improving data systems to reach the most vulnerable groups, and strictly enforcing laws that empower women. It coincides with the launch of the second edition of the RESPECT Framework, which provides updated guidance for preventing violence, particularly in humanitarian crises. The leaders of UN Women, UNFPA, and UNICEF call for urgent mobilization. UN Women (Dr. Sima Bahous) stated: “Ending violence against women and girls requires courage, commitment, and collective action.”
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"Bats ta femme tous les jours,même si tu ne sais pas pourquoi,elle le saura. Proverbe africain.
avec le bangala
Ceux qui essayent de nous faire croire que la violence dans le couple est le fait des hommes, ne veulent pas reconnaître la nature psychologique, sournoise et très vicieuse de la violence morale exercée par la femme très souvent à son conjoint qui de nature voit l'homme comme une source d'épanouissement matérielles. Combien de fois les faits divers nous relatent d'histoire où l'homme ait été mené en bateau vider de ses avoirs après avoir cru à un amour qui n'existait pas etc...
Elles emmerdent les gens,ces féministes.
Au lieu de demander aux femmes de travailler comme tout le monde,de contribuer aux charges familiales commes les hommes,de se battre et ne compter que sur soi,ces féministes subventionnées par l occident nous emmerdent tout le temps avec Droits des femmes ,Droits des femmes,violences faites aux femmes sans jamais nous parler des Devoirs des femmes et des violences faites par les femmes.
A cause de ces connasses,je commence a détester la gent féminine,le féminisme et toutes ses indignations sélectives fondée sur le genre.
Thiaga you bonn yi
Le féminisme ,la pédérastie et le workisme sont tous desbatardises venues d occident
En tout cas,ça commence a nous saouler ces histoires de violences a 2 balles.
Les femmes tuent,assassinent et versent de l huile chaude,et ces chiennes féministes dénoncent pas
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