![]() They indicate that a war on women is being waged in their homes and in their most private space. These numbers show that not only war and strife have a devastating impact on women’s lives. ![]() Often, the perpetrators are intimate partners. A World Health Organization (WHO) report showed, moreover, that one in three women are subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. Gamba said, for example, last year three girls were gang raped in South Sudan “during five days of terror,” many boys were killed by an explosive device at a school in Afghanistan, a 14-year-old girl in Myanmar was abducted and burned alive, and an airstrike in Ukraine left a girl with amputated limbs.In 2020, some 47,000 women and girls were killed by their partners or other family members worldwide, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). While armed groups were responsible for 50% of grave violations, Gamba underscored that governments were the main perpetrators of the killing and maiming of children and of attacks on schools and hospitals. ![]() The United Nations also verified attacks on 1,163 schools and 647 hospitals, a 112% increase from 2021, she said. ![]() ![]() The UN special envoy for children in armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, told the council that the 27,180 grave violations in 2022 were carried out against 18,890 children and included 8,620 who were killed or injured, 7,622 who were recruited or used by governments or armed groups in conflicts, 3,985 who were abducted, 1,165, almost all of them girls, who were raped, forced into marriage or sexual slavery or sexually assaulted.
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