Countries: Bangladesh
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Rapes and sexual assaults continue even during the pandemic, both inside and outside the home in Bangladesh. A recent survey among 38,125 women conducted by a human rights organization in 53 out of 64 districts in Bangladesh, 4,622 women were mentally tortured, 1,839 women were physically abused, 203 sexually abused (Manusher Jonno Foundation, 2020)" (para 3). "From January 2001 to December 2019, 6,900 women were victims of domestic and sexual violence. About 1,490 women were brutally gang-raped, 483 women were killed after being raped, and 35 women committed suicide after being raped (Odhikar Organization, 2020). Another report conducted during the COVID-19 situation; from January to September 2020, 397 women were...more

Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

“UNICEF cited ‘data compiled by gender-based violence service providers in Sudan’ that showed 221 rape cases against children have been documented since the beginning of 2024. Of those, 147 were girls, meaning 33 percent of rape victims were boys. Sixteen of the survivors were under five years of age and four of them were only one year old” (para 1). "UNICEF’s full report on sexual violence in Sudan noted that the war has displaced 11 million people and ‘tens of thousands have reportedly been killed,’ not only by violence but by outbreaks of famine and disease. The report argued that fully 25 percent of the Sudanese population should now be...more

Countries: Angola
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"In 2020, 15,000 cases of sexual violence against children were recorded (data from UNICEF)" (44).

Countries: Angola
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

The table containing the 2020 results of the Instituto Nacional da Criança [National Children Institute] shows that 3,688 girls and 1 boy are victims of sexual violence in Angola (83).

Countries: Angola
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

There are no official National Statistics Not Available on the lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence (para 3). The lifetime Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence is 34.8% (para 4).

Countries: Argentina
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence is 17%" (para 4).

Countries: Argentina
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

The officially reported rape rate in Argentina is 13.69 per 100,000 people in 2023 (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: South Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Even before 2023, South Sudan was among the highest-ranking countries for sexual and gender-based violence globally, having the second-highest rates in Sub-Saharan Africa" (para 10).

Countries: Iran
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Michel Abdollahi [German-Iranian journalist] has spoken of stories from inside Iran, claiming women are being abducted before being 'raped and mutilated' to prevent them from protesting against the regime" (para 1). This information shows the prevalence of rape specifically targeting the female protesters in Iran as a way to repression (MR-CODER COMMENT). "Mr Abdollahi [German-Iranian journalist] said: 'No women's bodies [refering to female protesters in Iran] are turning up, or very few. And that's because, according to eyewitness accounts, they are being raped, their uteruses removed, their scalps ripped off along with their hair and their bodies covered in cigarette burns.' He said the Islamic Republic, led by Khamenei, 'uses...more

Countries: Albania
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Only during 2022, the number of women and girls who were raped increased three times compared to 2021. According to Replika.al, the number of victims during 2022 reached 3760 from the 1374 that were in 2021" (para 1).

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

The table, titled "GBV reportedly perpetrated by Taliban," shows that there were 115 incidents of sexual violence (including forced marriage, abduction, sexual slavery, sexual assault, rape, and threats of sexual violence) allegedly perpetrated by Taliban members between January 2022 and June 2024 (para 9).

Countries: Haiti
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"The number of sexual abuse cases being treated at a clinic in Haiti's capital has tripled in the past four years as gang violence surges across the troubled Caribbean country" (para 1). "'Over 100 individuals were attacked by 10 or more perpetrators at a time,' [the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres] said, noting an average of three perpetrators per case. The clinic has treated nearly 17,000 patients in the past decade, including 2,300 alone in the first nine months of last year. More than 350 of those patients are boys and men, MSF said. The demographics of those being attacked has also changed. Prior to 2022, half of all cases at...more

Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"In 2016 an inquiry by MPs found that 600 rapes had been reported in schools over a three-year period. It also found that 59 per cent of girls and young women aged 13-21 reported they had faced some form of sexual harassment in school or college the year before" (para 4-5).

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Rates of intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence are extremely high in Afghanistan. In 2018, an estimated 50.8 per cent of Afghan women between the ages of 15 and 49 had experienced such violence at least once in their lifetime. In some provinces, this figure was as high as 92 per cent. The global average is 26 per cent, which puts Afghanistan in the top 19 States worldwide in terms of the prevalence of GBV among women" (28).

Countries: Poland
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

The chart in the UNODC Data Portal titled, "Violent Crime & Sexual Violence," shows that the rate of reported rapes in Poland in 2023 was 1.29 per 100,000 population, and the rate of reported sexual assaults was 1.03 per 100,000.