{"id":132726,"date":"2024-07-31T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/millions-of-young-women-suffer-at-the-hands-of-their-intimate-partners-who\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T06:05:48","slug":"millions-of-young-women-suffer-at-the-hands-of-their-intimate-partners-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/yleinen\/millions-of-young-women-suffer-at-the-hands-of-their-intimate-partners-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of young women suffer at the hands of their intimate partners: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132726\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Nearly a quarter of all adolescent girls who have been in a relationship \u2013 close to 19 million \u2013 will have experienced intimate partner violence by the time they turn 20, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new analysis on Monday. The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet Child &amp; Adolescent Health, draws on existing data and provides the first detailed examination of the prevalence of physical and\/or sexual violence faced by girls aged 15-19 years who have been in intimate relationships. Almost 16 per cent, or one in six, were affected in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pascale Allotey, Director of WHO\u2019s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research Department, noted that intimate partner violence is starting alarmingly early for millions of young women across the globe. \u201cGiven that violence during these critical formative years can cause profound and lasting harms, it needs to be taken more seriously as a public health issue \u2013 with a focus on prevention and targeted support,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Intimate partner violence can have devastating impacts on health, WHO said. It can increase the likelihood of injuries, depression, anxiety disorders, unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and many other physical and psychological conditions. At the same time, educational achievement, future relationships and lifelong prospects, can also be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Although the problem occurs everywhere, WHO found significant differences in prevalence rates. The worst-affected regions are Oceana and central sub-Saharan Africa, at 47 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively, while the lowest rates are in central Europe, 10 per cent, and central Asia, 11 per cent. Furthermore, intimate partner violence against young women is most common in lower-income countries and regions, in places where fewer girls are attending secondary school, and where girls have weaker legal property ownership and inheritance rights compared to men. Child marriage \u2013 that is, before a girl turns 18 \u2013 also significantly heightens risks, WHO said. Spousal age differences create power imbalances, economic dependency and social isolation \u2013 all of which increase the likelihood of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>To address the issue, WHO stressed the urgent need to strengthen and support services and early prevention measures geared towards adolescents. This should be accompanied by actions to advance women\u2019s and girls\u2019 agency and rights, including school-based programmers to educate both girls and boys on healthy relationships and violence protection, legal protections and economic empowerment The UN health agency recalled that currently, no country is on track to eliminate violence against women and girls by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) targets. Therefore, ending child marriage \u2013 which affects one in five girls globally \u2013 and expanding girls\u2019 access to secondary education, will be critical for reducing partner violence against adolescent girls, WHO said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe study shows that to end gender-based violence, countries need to have policies and programmes in place that increase equality for women and girls,\u201d said the author, Dr. Lynnmarie Sardinha, Technical Officer for Violence against Women Data and Measurement at WHO.\u201cThis means ensuring secondary education for all girls, securing gender-equal property rights and ending harmful practices such as child marriage, which are often underpinned by the same inequitable gender norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this end, WHO supports countries to measure and address violence against women, including efforts to strengthen prevention and response within the healthcare sector. The agency also plans to release new guidelines on prevention of child marriage by the end the year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2024\/07\/1152616\">The UN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/brussels-consults-on-code-of-practice-for-general-purpose-artificial-intelligence-2\/\">Millions of young women suffer at the hands of their intimate partners: WHO<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[2586,402,606,607,608,432,655,15510],"class_list":["post-132726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-partner","tag-un","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-who","tag-yleinen","tag-young-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}