{"id":4129,"date":"2013-07-16T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2013-07-16T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:58:40","slug":"violence-against-women-by-world-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence Against Women by World Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/violence-against-women.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4130\" alt=\"violence against women\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/violence-against-women.png\" width=\"595\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/violence-against-women.png 595w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/violence-against-women-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a>In this chart published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2013\/06\/daily-chart-12\">The Economist<\/a> we look at two sets of data about violence against women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The first one shows that more than a third (39%) of homicides of women around the world are committed by a previous or current partner. The numbers are specially shocking for South East Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar [Burma], Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, Philippines, and Singapore). The numbers are also high for Latin American and African countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The second set of data shows that 30% of women around the world have experienced physical or sexual violence during their lifetime by a former or current partner. The numbers are the highest for Central African countries (Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda),\u00a0 followed by countries in West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, etc.), South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), the Andean region of South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia), the Middle East, and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Violence Against Women by World Region' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Violence Against Women by World Region' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Violence Against Women by World Region' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Violence Against Women by World Region' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this chart published by The Economist we look at two sets of data about violence against women. The first one shows that more than a third (39%) of homicides of women around the world are committed by a previous or current partner. The numbers are specially shocking for South East Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Violence Against Women by World Region' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Violence Against Women by World Region' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Violence Against Women by World Region' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Violence Against Women by World Region' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/violence-against-women-by-world-region\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,10,3,15,6,11,47,93,31,92,48,455,37,13,9,19,453,166,94,46,30],"tags":[1374,1162,144,1163,551,552,1165,595,106,1164,1150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}