Gender Based Violence: A Guide To Global Issues | Global Citizen

In this Global Citizen guide to global issues, get the statistics on gender based violence and the knowledge to call for an end to harmful practices that hold girls and women back. Watch more Global Citizen guides to global issues:    • Gender Inequality and Female Empowerment: ...  

Roughly 90% of all countries have at least one legal difference between women and men limiting women’s opportunities. These include laws that condone child marriage, marital rape, honor killings and female genital mutilation. In some instances, countries lack the legislative and regulatory frameworks to protect women from violence. Follow the issue: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/issu...

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Facts and figures from UN Women, World Health Organization, and World Bank
Music: "John Stockton Slow Drag" by Chris Zabriskie

This video is a Global Citizen guide to gender based violence.