LONDON, September 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One million women in poverty living in Britain, violence and abuse have suffered, were ...
LONDON, September 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One million women in poverty living in Britain, violence and abuse have suffered, were released after a report on Wednesday that suicide them more likely to try to make the face shortage of housing and mental disorders ,
In what it says is the first report on the agenda, an alliance of more than 60 groups are focused on girls and women at risk, says women living in poverty, the more likely they will face in almost all kinds of abuse and violence against other women.
"The relationship between violence and poverty in the lives of women is not surprising," Katharine Sacks-Jones, director of the program, the Thomson Reuters Foundation said.
"What really surprising is how difficult the lives of women living in a time may be.
According to the report, 14 percent of women who in poverty faced violence and abuse wider than sacrifice a broad forced control and physical partner violence, or face abuse physical and sexual.
This rate is more than double that women who are not in poverty.
Poverty and violence are a large number of lives of the victims, the report said.
More than one third of women who faced both attempted suicide, have become compared with four percent of poor women who are victims of violence, while more than one in two had anxiety, depression and other common mental disorders. One fifth was homeless.
"Poor women have fewer resources to prevent violence and abuse," said Sacks-Jones, for a government-wide approach calling for women to support.
"The experience of violence and abuse can keep women in poverty. Poverty and violence feed on each other."
