“One in five American women is sexually assaulted or raped during their time at college or university, according to the White House. Students are, it says, among the most vulnerable group when it comes to attacks of this kind.”
BBC
A third of women in Europe have suffered some form of physical or sexual assault and five percent have been raped.
Just over one in 10 of the women interviewed indicated that they experienced some form of sexual violence by an adult before they were 15 years old. One in 10 had experienced some form of sexual violence since the age of 15, one in 20 had been raped.
The report also found that 55 percent of women had experienced some form of sexual harassment, 18 percent had been stalked and 11 percent had experienced inappropriate advances on social web sites or had been subjected to sexually explicit e-mails or texts. Among women between 18 and 29, 20 percent said they had been victims of such “cyber-harassment.”
At the other end of the age range, the percentage of women over-60 responding that they had been victims of some kind of sexual violence at any stage in their lives, was lower at 28 percent.
(FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP)
May Allah protect us.
