GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILESOUTH AFRICAMEASURESSTUDY ON VIOLENCE AGAINST PREGNANT WOMEN BY INTIMATE PARTNERS
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Study on Violence Against Pregnant Women by Intimate Partners
Type of Measure
Research and statistical data > Dedicated violence against women survey
Form of Violence
Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence
Year
2018
Brief Description
In 2018, the University of Cape Town released the first study of violence against pregnant women at the hands of their intimate partners. The study found that violence against pregnant women is also committed by family members, and that 15% of women had experienced abuse ranging from sexual and physical to emotional and verbal. The researchers found that the high level of violence was associated with poverty– related factors, including food-insecurity, mental ill-health, unemployment, unwanted pregnancies and past experience of abuse. In its most severe form, violence against pregnant women has been reported as a contributor of maternal deaths.
Source of Information

South Africa's submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.123

For more information: Pregnant women in South Africa suffer at hands of violent partners

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