homicide victims are killed by their husbands or partners, past or present.In Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States, 40% to 70% of female homicide victims were killed by their partners, according to the World Health OrganizationIn Colombia, every six days a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner.Psychological or emotional violence by intimate partners is also widespread.sexual violenceIt is estimated that, worldwide, one in five women will become a victim of rape or attempted rape during life.The practice of early marriage - a form of sexual violence - is common worldwide, especially in Africa and South Asia. Girls are often forced to marry and have sex, which carries health risks, including exposure to HIV / AIDS and the limitation of school attendance.One of the effects of sexual abuse is traumatic gynecologic fistula: an injury resulting from severe disruption of the vaginal tissues, leaving the woman incontinent and socially undesirable.Sexual violence in conflictSexual violence in conflict is a serious current atrocity affecting millions of people, mostly women and girls.It is often a deliberate strategy employed on a large scale by armed groups to humiliate opponents, terrify individuals and destroy societies. Women and girls may also be subjected to sexual exploitation by those who have an obligation to protect them.Women, whether grandparents or babies, have routinely suffered violent sexual abuse at the hands of soldiers and rebel forces.Rape has long been used as a tactic of war, with reports of violence against women during or after armed conflicts in all areas of international or non-international war.In the Democratic Republic of Congo, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month, with an average of 36 women and girls raped every day. It is believed that more than 200,000 women have suffered sexual violence in the country since the beginning of the armed conflict.Rape and sexual abuse of women and girls permeates the conflict in Darfur, SudanBetween 250,000 and 500,000 women were raped during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.Sexual violence was a characteristic trait of the civil war that lasted 14 years in Liberia.During the conflict in Bosnia in the early 1990s, between 20 and 50 thousand women were raped.Violence and HIV / AIDSThe inability to negotiate safe sex and refuse unwanted sex is closely linked to the high incidence of HIV / AIDS. The Unwanted sex results in increased risk of bruising and bleeding, which facilitates the transmission of the virus.Women who are battered by their partners are 48% more prone to HIV / AIDS.Young women are particularly vulnerable to coerced sex and are increasingly infected with HIV / AIDS. More than half of new HIV infections worldwide occur among young people aged 15 to 24 years, and over 60% of young people infected with the virus are women in this age group.Excision / Female Genital MutilationThe Excision / Female Genital Mutilation (FGM / C) refers to several types of mutilation operations performed on women and girls.It is estimated that over 130 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM / C, especially in Africa and some Middle East countries.It is