VIENNA: Nearly one in three women in the European Union is subjected to some form of violence during her lifetime, the bloc´s rights agency said on Tuesday, warning that gender-based violence is “widespread, increasingly digital and overlooked”.
Some 30.7 per cent of women across Europe said that they have “experienced physical violence and/or sexual violence” since the age of 15, according to a survey published by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).
Close to one in 10 women said they have been “physically injured by their partner”, FRA said in a statement accompanying the report, with 17.2 percent saying they have “experienced sexual violence, including rape” or other sexual attacks.
The survey, which was jointly carried out by FRA, Eurostat and the Lithuania-based European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), also revealed that digitalisation has been “intensifying abuse” suffered by women.
“8.5 per cent of women were cyberstalked”, the report by the Vienna-based FRA said, and 10.2 per cent of those women surveyed “had their location monitored or tracked by their intimate partner”.
