Asia-Pacific Fails its Women
Shadow pandemic: gender-based violence
By: Shoba Shukla
At least one of every three women in the countries of Asia and the Pacific has suffered one or more forms of gender-based violence including intimate partner violence. Per 2018 data, 19 percent of women in South Asia, 9 percent in Southeast Asia, and between 19 percent and 30 percent in the Pacific experienced physical and/or sexual inti…
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