Soraya Chemaly: 50 Facts About Domestic Violence
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Sunday was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the launch of this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. In the time it takes me to write this paragraph, 26 people — given our statistics probably all women — will be assaulted by an intimate partner in the U.S. In the roughly 48 hours between my writing and posting, at least six women in the US and hundreds if not thousands around the world will be killed by violent spouses.