ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS
- 50,000 women, very young girls and men were raped
during the Balkan War
- 40,000 in Libera
- 60,000 in sierra Leone
- 250,000-500,000 in Rwanda
- In the Democratic Repulic of Congo
more than 48 women are raped each hour
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Women and girls aged 14, 15 or even younger
from Iraq’s Yazidi minority are being sold into sexual slavery
and abused by the Islamic State (IS) group.
IS fighters are using rape as a weapon.
GENDER RELATED CRIME
IN PEACETIME AND IN TIME OF WAR
Sexual abuse and rape committed in everyday peacetime grow to monstrous sizes during armed conflicts and wars
ACCORDING TO THE CRIME PREVENTIVE COUNCIL IN DENMARK
Around 4,000 rapes are commited in Denmark each year
Only 10% are reported to the police