According to Plan International, 2 in 3 girls and women between the ages of 12 and 25 were harassed last year. “Worldwide and therefore also in the Netherlands, sexual violence is a structural problem,” the organization said on its website. Plan International is a development cooperation organization that works for vulnerable children in more than 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, with a special focus on girls and young women.
Crisis situations, war, natural disasters and the corona pandemic, for example, make women extra vulnerable and sexual violence increases during crisis situations. “One in five women who are on the run will have to deal with it.” According to the organization, eighty percent of women worldwide have been sexually harassed at some point. Statistics show that 1 in 10 women experience rape. To put a stop to this, the Night against Violence is organized annually.