U.N. study shows ‘horrifying’ violence against women

About 30 percent of all women worldwide have been subjected to physical or sexual violence at least once during their lives, U.N. agencies found in a survey.

By Arete News - March 9, 2021

Scene from an event in Bonn, Germany last November for the U.N. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (AN/Mika Baumeister)

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