Some statistics

In the US, a woman is raped every 6 minutes; a woman is battered every 15 seconds. In North Africa, 6,000 women are genitally mutilated each day. This year, more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery in China. 200 women in Bangladesh will be horribly disfigured when their spurned husbands or suitors burn them with acid. More than 7,000 women in India will be murdered by their families and in-laws in disputes over dowries. Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination which denies women equal rights with men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women's bodies for individual gratification or political ends. Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women.

Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill Treatment of Women, Amnesty International, 2001)

A note about Spain

"Women spend seven times more time on housework per se than do men; in quantitative terms, this amounts to 4 hours, 24 minutes for women and 37 minutes for men.
Despite these statistics, however, there is a trend towards change and, as time passes, women and men are moving closer to an equal distribution of their time."

CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER
ARTICLE 18 OF THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL
FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN Fourth periodic reports of States parties. SPAIN*

Stop Violence Against Women

Violence against women is a human rights violation. It is not a a "women's issue" or a "private matter", it is our problem!

The underlying cause of the violence that women suffer is discrimination, which denies them equality with men in all areas of life. From birth to death, in times of peace as well as war, women face discrimination and violence at the hands of the state, the community and the family.

Amnesty International, Stop Violence Against Women Campaign