In the U.S., a woman is raped every 6 minutes; a woman is battered every 15 seconds.

In North Africa, 6,000 women are genitally mutilated each day.

This year, more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery in China.

200 women in Bangladesh will be horribly disfigured when their spurned husbands or suitors burn them with acid.

More than 7,000 women in India will be murdered by their families and in-laws in disputes over dowries.
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Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination which denies women equal rights with men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women's bodies for individual gratification or political ends.