ACTS OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE, CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
In the 24 developing countries studied in a recent survey, a combined total of only 7% of survivors of gender-based violence, including physical and sexual acts, formally reported their attacks to police, medical or social services. In India, less than 1% of survivors reported gender-based violence to formal sources. In the same 24 developing countries, the surveyors explored whether women told their friends, family members or neighbors about their attacks and found that the rates of this “informal reporting” ranged from 15% in Honduras to 60% in Ukraine. In Papua New Guinea, 59.1% of men admit to forcing an unwilling intimate partner into having sex. According to the UN, there were 15,654 cases of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012.
