Survey suggests 9 million women in EU rape victims

[ismnotwasm]

Vienna: A survey of 42,000 women across the European Union suggests that about one in 10 have been the victims of sexual violence, and half of them reported being raped.

Described as the largest of its kind, the survey released today by the EU's Agency for Fundamental Rights is the most ambitious effort yet to gauge the extent of sexual violence and harassment experienced by the 186.6 million women in the EU's 28 nations.

The survey suggests that more than 100 million women were subject to sexual harassment broadly defined in 11 categories ranging from indecent exposure to inappropriate requests for a date.

Only one woman in seven reported their most serious incident of intimate partner violence to police.

Released on International Women's Day, the EU survey was based on face-to-face interviews with women aged between 15 and 74 in all 28 EU countries.

It was conducted from March to September 2012 by a consortium headed the UN -affiliated European Institute for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 per centage points.

Among the findings:

More:http://www.abplive.in/crime/2014/03/05/article272715.ece/Survey-suggests-9-million-women-in-EU-rape-victims

[BainsBane]

1. We need a study like this is the US

[ismnotwasm]

4. Yup.

We certainly do

[KitSileya]

2. This was in the news a lot in Norway last week.

They pointed out that in the Norwegian statistics, at least, it didn't count rapes that were done while the the victim was unconscious. Only "forcible" rapes, or rapes with violence or threat of violence, were counted. So the numbers are deliberately under-counted. AND they only count women over 15 years of age.¨

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Thanks for the additional perspective

So it's even worse that the report outlines - not suprised.