According to Doris Bures, Austrian Federal Minister for Women and the Civil Service, one in five Austrian women are victims of male violence.
The mid-Magdalena region of Colombia is known as "The region of death. Women are the victims in the drug-fueled conflict between right wing death squads, the army and left wing guerrillas.
For the last ten years the Eastern Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been at war. The women bear the brunt of it.
In the Islamic state of Mauritania, it is illegal to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. Rape is undefined in the country's law.
Morocco is coming to terms with the human rights abuses of its recent past.
Deserted by her husband and with four children to support, 24 year-old Sushma from a remote village in Nepal was sold for sexual slavery.
With an eye to improving its chances of joining the EU, some say, Turkey is cracking down on custom killing, making life imprisonment a mandatory sentence.