The last argument is based on how violence towards women leads to public health dealing with more victims. There is an urgent need to address the problems because of its toll on the physical and mental health of women worldwide. This has been recognized by various international organizations. How at a conference in Beijing violence against women was recognized as a serious obstacle to women’s advancement in life, and their perspective on themselves. Mistreatment during childbirth has been documented for over three decades. Mother has been slapped, pinched, gagged, and even bound while delivering their children. It has finally been brought to light the extent of mistreatment women endured while giving birth. Around the globe there has been about 64 studies looked at in 34 different countries, including South Africa (Cape Times Report). 300,000 women are mistreated in childbirth. 99% are from low to middle class income countries that died from pregnancy or childbirth related complications (2013 statistics showed). 84.5% were …show more content…
A survey of 300 women over several years for an article, “American Journal of Public Health”, they focused on women that slept in unsafe places, shelters, and who were/are “unstably housed,” which is lack of permit resident. But these women that are homeless are double victimized by poverty and predators. A third of the women told Dr. Elise D. Riley and her colleagues they experienced physical violence, and third said they experienced sexual violence, two-thirds said they were victims of emotional violence {4}. On this website I saw this saying not sure if it’s from Dr. Riley or the webpage itself but it caught my eye, “The odds that a women abused as a child experienced major violence during the past year were three times the odd that a woman without a history of childhood abuse experienced major