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EMBARGOED NEWS RELEASE: Adolescent girls face alarming rates of intimate partner violence (Embargoed until 23:30 BST on Monday 29th July / 00:30 CEST on Tuesday 30th July) Inbox WHO Media Unsubscribe 2:05 PM (9 hours ago) to me No images? Click here Monday, 29 July 2024 Embargoed until 23:30 BST on Monday 29th July / 00:30 CEST on Tuesday 30th July NEWS RELEASE Adolescent girls face alarming rates of intimate partner violence 30 July 2024 --- Among adolescent girls who have been in a relationship, nearly a quarter (24%) – close to 19 million - will have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence by the time they turn 20 years old, as highlighted by a new analysis from the World Health Organization (WHO) published today in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Almost 1 in 6 (16%) experienced such violence in the past year. “Intimate partner violence is starting alarmingly early for millions of young women around the world,” said Dr Pascale Allotey, Direct...

The Benefits of Hijab by Oula Abu Hwaij We have heard countless stories reported in the Western media on the plight of Muslim women around the world, caused by “oppressive” Muslim men that are wrongfully yet deliberately correlated to their religion and societies. Some of these stories are true but many have been shown to be nothing but hoaxes created to emphasize and perpetuate certain stereotypes about Muslims. One example that comes to mind is the book Honor Lost written by Norma Khouri on honor killings in Jordan, which was later proven to have mostly invented stories (Abdulhadi 111). These stereotypes formed by the Western media’s representational entrepreneurs have created misconceptions, lack of understanding, and intolerance towards Muslims and Arabs. As a result, “The War on Terror” launched by the US and other Western countries against the Arab and Muslim world has been justified, and perceived to be the way to get rid of fundamentalist Muslims. In Western countries, one o...