Saturday, November 26, 2005

Ending violence against refugee women is a top priority, says Guterres / Reuters AlertNet, 25 Nov 2005

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/UNHCR/01ec3fd7b5d9787d4bdc89c512f4a844.htm "The United Nations Population Fund has found that violence kills as many women and girls between the ages of 15 and 44 as cancer; that worldwide, one in three women has been beaten, coerced into unwanted sexual relations, or abused; and that roughly 80 per cent of the 800,000 people trafficked across borders each year are women and girls."