The kinds of attitudes that should be reported and so
may in fact underestimate their favorable attitudes about violence against women.
So we're really trying to understand attitudes around the world better, but
suffice it to say,
there are a large number of countries around the world, where violence and
particularly physical violence against women is still considered justifiable.
In the next slide, we see the prevalence in non-partner sexual violence,
so this would be sexual violence that occurs by teachers,
by strangers, by anyone who is not an intimate partner of a woman.
And these estimates just recently became vail, available from data collected again
around the world both in resource-poor and resource-wealthy countries.
And the best estimates that we have of non-partner sexual violence globally
are that approximately 7.2% of women report that they have
experienced some form of non-partner sexual violence.
There is some uncertainty about these estimates.
And so we believe that, the margin of error for
the estimates are approximately 5.3 to 9.1%.
And these estimates have been generated for different regions of the world and
I've just noted a couple of regions marking the lower bound and
upper bound for these estimates.
The lower bound, purportedly, is in the area of South Asia where 3.3%
of women have reported some form of non-partner sexual violence.
And the upper bound, purportedly sub-Saharan Africa and
the Central Region, where 21% of women have reported non-partner sexual violence.
I do want to caution about ranking regions around the world.
Because questions about non-partner sexual violence, have different sensitivities and
different context.
And there may be quite a bit of variation in levels of underreporting.
And so the authors of this particular paper have suggested that
the estimates are probably subject to some form of differential underreporting.
But nonetheless, the main point is that levels of non-partner sexual
violence are very high, unacceptably high on human rights grounds around the world.
And that we need more effort invested into trying to get a handle on
probably what are higher magnitudes of
non-partner sexual violence in regions around the world.