| content | "<p>Beyond specific medical treatments or conditions, broader public health issues often have a disproportionate impact on cis and transgender women and girls. Take for example, acts of gender-based violence such as rape, harassment, and female genital mutilation. These have both society-wide and individual impacts globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-against-women" target="[object Object]">highlights some key factors:</a> </p>
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<li>Estimates published by WHO indicate that globally about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.</li>
<li>Most of this violence is intimate partner violence. Worldwide, around 27% of women aged 15-49 years who have been in a relationship report that they have been subjected to some form of physical and/or sexual violence by their intimate partner.</li>
<li>Violence can negatively affect women’s physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health, and may increase the risk of acquiring HIV in some settings.</li>
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<p><strong>Online Gender based violence</strong></p>
<p>Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV) is deeply rooted in discriminatory social norms, gender inequality and often connected to offline violence. It is actively a barrier against women, girls and gender-diverse people’s freedom of speech and their involvement in the public agenda. <a href="https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/30-for-2030/toolkit-youth-guide-to-end-online-gender-based-violence" target="[object Object]">Research has shown OGBV undeniably widens the gender digital gap </a>and ultimately is a threat against peaceful, sustainable and gender equal societies.</p>
<p>Emerging themes in Gender based violence are not always covered well online, and reach the people who need when and where they need it. Online Gender Based Violence is a quickly changing field that affects people around the world, as the kinds of violence that happen only emerge in different spaces online. Read more about it in this <a href="https://techlab.webfoundation.org/case-studies/data-reports" target="[object Object]">report by the Tech Lab at the Web Foundation</a>.</p>
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