Publication : Report

Children, women, and sometimes also men, are subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in countries all over the world. While acknowledging that all sexual violence, regardless of the identity of the victim, is important as a human rights issue, this report focuses on one form of sexual violence, namely rape of women in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. In almost all reported rapes in the Nordic countries of people aged 15 years or older the victim of the crime is female, and the perpetrator is a man.2 Women are raped by men they are close to or acquainted with as well as by men completely unknown to them.

Information Source : Rape Victims Worldwide Denied Justice and Dignity

• Amnesty International