This is a global annual report for the UN Trust Fund to End Violence againts Women. Global statistics include:
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1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual imtimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence.
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About 7 % of women have been sexually assaulted by someone other than their partner.
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More than 125 million women and girls alive today have undergone some form of female genital mutilation.
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More than 700 million women worldwide alive today were married before their 18th birthdays.
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About 250 million women worldwide alive today were married before the age of 15.
Through UN Trust Fund programmes in 2015:
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Close to 180,000 women and girls were directly involved in programme activities.
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Over 130,000 peoplew were engaged as agents of change.
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Almost 700,000 people were reached through awareness raising, social media campaigns, radio, TV and other forms of entertainment.