Five things you didn ’t know about disability and sexual violence

UNITED NATIONS, New York – Fifteen per cent of the world ’s population lives with a disability, and nearly 200 million are between the ages of 10 and 24. Yet they are often invisible in government statistics.Girls and boys with disabilities are largely excluded from education and health services,discriminated against in their communities and trapped in a cycle of poverty and violence.  

Source: UNFPA News - October 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: ashton Source Type: news