Asia-Pacific Fails its Women

Shadow pandemic: gender-based violence

By: Shoba Shukla

At least one of every three women in the countries of Asia and the Pacific has suffered one or more forms of gender-based violence including intimate partner violence. Per 2018 data, 19 percent of women in South Asia, 9 percent in Southeast Asia, and between 19 percent and 30 percent in the Pacific experienced physical and/or sexual inti…