SOUTH AMERICA
Peru:
70% of women reported physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner*
Chile:
Almost 60% of women who live with their partners suffer some sort of violence.**
Brazil:
29% of women in São Paulo and 37% in Pernambuco experienced physical or sexual violence by a partner***
*World Health Organization, 2011
**Inter-American Development Bank
***World Health Organization, Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence Against Women, 2004