United Nations IWD Website

Here is a link to the United Natons IWD website. Pretty cut and dry, but some statistics worth quoting:

• “It is estimated that between 113 million and 200 million women are demographically “missing.” They have been the victims of infanticide (boys are preferred to girls) or have not received the same amount of food and medical attention as their brothers and fathers.
• The number of women forced or sold into prostitution is estimated worldwide at anywhere between 700,000 and 4,000,000 per year. Profits from sex slavery are estimated at seven to twelve billion US dollars per year.
• Globally, women between the age of fifteen and forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die as a result of male violence than through cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war combined.
• It is estimated that more than two million girls are genitally mutilated per year, a rate of one girl every fifteen seconds.”