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The phrase stems from a 2013 UN Women study that reported of surveyed Egyptian girls and women experienced sexual harassment at least once in their lifetime; the figure functions as a shorthand for th...
Available sources report that the overwhelming majority of recorded rape perpetrators are men — U.S.-focused sources cite nearly 99% of perpetrators as male and other national data consistently show a...
Available sources agree that the great majority of people convicted of rape are men and the large majority of victims are women: multiple summaries cite figures like “nearly 99% of perpetrators are ma...
Child marriage occurs in some Muslim-majority countries but is driven by social, legal and economic factors rather than a single “Muslim” cause; UNICEF estimates 40 million child brides live in the Mi...
Available, high-quality sources show women are overwhelmingly more likely to be victims of intimate-partner and sexual violence, while men account for a large share of overall violent-crime offending ...
Available reporting and datasets give partial, evolving breakdowns of Gaza casualties by age and gender: Gaza Health Ministry lists tens of thousands identified by name (34,344 names published as of 1...
International human rights bodies generally judge Sharia-based laws through the lens of universal treaties and often find them incompatible with gender-equality norms when state practice produces sex-...
Rwanda currently leads the world in female parliamentary representation — official Rwandan sources report 63.75% of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 50% in the Senate, and multiple international d...
Intimate partner and family-member killings account for a striking share of female homicides: UNODC/UN Women estimate about 85,000 women were killed intentionally in 2023, and roughly 60% — about 51,1...
Activists sometimes use or tolerate violence when they believe legal channels, public institutions, or digital spaces systematically deny them safety and political voice — a dynamic repeatedly tied to...
The widely cited “99%” figure comes from a 2013 UN Women study — often reported as 99.3% — in which more than 99% of surveyed Egyptian women and girls said they had experienced some form of sexual har...
President Trump ordered the United States to withdraw from or suspend participation in a sweeping set of international organizations and treaties — a list his White House and State Department say tota...
Yes—women’s rights and outcomes remain measurably below men’s in multiple important capacities worldwide: global indices show persistent economic and political gaps even as educational and many health...
Across multiple global datasets and reviews from the last decade, sexual violence is overwhelmingly experienced by women and girls and overwhelmingly perpetrated by men; international estimates put li...
Global data show roughly 60% of women and girls killed intentionally are killed by intimate partners or family members — about 50,000 of ~83,000 female homicide victims in the most recent UNODC/UN Wom...
Reliable measurement of gender differences in sexual-violence perpetration depends on large, transparent prevalence studies, validated self‑report perpetration measures, and attention to gaps for boys...
Egypt first criminalized sexual harassment in a 2014 amendment to the Penal Code, creating punishments of six months to five years’ imprisonment and fines (up to EGP 50,000 in some accounts) and defin...
Attackers target high-profile political activists with a blend of digital and physical methods: coordinated online harassment, doxxing and deepfakes to discredit and silence, plus cyber intrusions, DD...
Prosecutions and accountability efforts in Somalia have been paired with large UN and donor-led programmes to professionalize police and rebuild public trust; UNDP’s Joint Police Programme Phase II ex...
Legal and policy developments since 2024 have produced tangible rollbacks and proposed rollbacks that rights groups and international bodies say threaten women’s rights in the United States—most promi...