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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
So in one of the articles it says that 1 in 4 women will be raped at least once. Isn't that insanely high?
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Some stats from the
Canadian Women's Foundation:
Half of Canadian women (51%) have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16.1
Every minute of every day, a Canadian woman or child is being sexually assaulted
One to two women are murdered by a current or former partner each week in Canada
Thirty-six percent of female victims of spousal violence and less than 10% of victims of sexual assault reported these crimes to the police in 2004
Violence against women occurs across all ethnic, racial, religious, age, social and economic groups. Some women are more vulnerable however, and are more likely to experience violence, including women with disabilities, geographically-isolated women, young women and Aboriginal women.