Women's Day -- Unite to End Violence Against Women

March 7, 2013

By Chea Sophal

Phnom Penh: To celelbrate the coming International Women's Day on 8 March, the ILO is releasing a feature article "When work becomes a sexual battleground" highlighting a story of Sisandra, who is 28, and experienced a sexaul harassment at the workplace. 

 “My executive manager came to the office and asked for my number and I gave it to him. I did not ask him why he wanted my number as he is a senior person and respected by all in the company because of his position. He then started touching my breast and private parts.”

Read the full article: "When work becomes a sexual battleground"

The U.N are also releasing the figures in relation to sexaul harassment and violence against women as following: 

Violence by an intimate partner

• In Australia, Canada, and Israel 40 to 70 per cent of female murder victims were killed by their partners, according to the World Health Organization.
• In the United States, one-third of women murdered each year are killed by intimate partners.
• In South Africa, a woman is killed every six hours by an intimate partner.
• In India, 22 women were killed each day in dowry-related murders in 2007.
• In Guatemala, two women are murdered, on average, each day.

Sexual violence

• According to the World Health Organization, the proportion of women suffering sexual violence by non-partners after the age of 15 varies from less than 1 per cent in Ethiopia andBangladesh to between 10 and 12 per cent in Peru, Samoa and the United Republic of Tanzania. 
•  In Canada a study of adolescents aged 15 to 19 found that 54 per cent of girls had experienced “sexual coercion” in a dating relationship.
• In Switzerland, 22.3 per cent of women experience sexual violence by non-partners in their lifetime.
  
  For full report and figures, see Violence Against Women, United Nations Secretary - General's Campaign: Unite to End Violence Against Women.