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Women who are physically abused by a partner face a similar legacy of health problems whether they live in a modern city in the industrialized world or a traditional village in a developing country, the first global study on domestic violence has found. In interviews with 24,000 women in 10 countries, researchers found that while there are wide variations in the rate of women experiencing sexual or other physical abuse at the hands of their partners, victims are about twice as likely as other women to suffer ill health — and the effect seems to persist long after the violence has stopped. The study — conducted by the World Health Organization in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and PATH, a global health organization — is a landmark, said former U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. “We don’t actually know, unless we have studies like this, how serious and pervasive violence by intimate partners really is,” said Robinson, who was not connected with the research. “For the first time, this study has used consistent means to measure violence across countries, so that we can now reasonably compare.” More : foxnews.com |
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