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One in six women has been raped.

Of Black women, nearly 1 in 8 has suffered racist sexual assault.

98% of domestic violence is not reported to the police.

Only 2.7% of applications for paternal child contact are refused (of a total of 46,000 in 2003).

An estimated 70% of women seeking asylum in Britain have fled rape.

Less than 7% of reported rapes result in conviction.

In 2007-8, 14,417 rapes were reported to the police.

On average, 15% of reported rapes were written off as “no crime” by the police, so don’t appear in crime statistics.

In Northumbria, 45% of reported rapes were not recorded as a crime.

One in four sex offenders were only given a caution.

809 cautions were for sexual assault on a woman and 299 were for sexual activity with a child under 16.

Another 130 cautions were for sexual activity with a child under 13.

One to two women a week are murdered by their partner or ex-partner.

1,966 cautions were handed out for sex offences, including 34 rapes or attempted rapes.

A third of women in Britain have suffered domestic violence.

In 30%- 60% of domestic violence cases, the abusive partner is also directly abusing children in the family.

One in three teenage girls has suffered sexual abuse from a boyfriend, one in six has been pressured into sex.

One in four teenage girls has experienced violence in a relationship and one in 16 have been raped.