“An estimated one out of 14 women worldwide above the age of 15 say they have been sexually assaulted by someone other than their partner, according to a new international study.
The Lancet study, which was published on Feb. 11, was conducted by researchers at the South African Medical Research Council, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the World Health Organization. They looked at 77 studies that collected data from 56 different countries between 1998 to 2011.
‘We found that sexual violence is a common experience for women worldwide, and in some regions is endemic, reaching more than 15 percent in four regions,’ Professor Naeemah Abrahams from the South African Medical Research Council in Cape Town said in a press release.”
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