Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Domestic Violence. One of the same. Two survivors share their experiences of IPV.

IPV: Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, as well as sexual coercion and stalking by a current or former intimate partner. An intimate partner is a person with whom you have or had a close personal or sexual relationship.

On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year. Nearly, 15% of women have been injured as a result of IPV that included rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. About 35% of women who were raped as minors also were raped as adults compared to 14% of women without an early rape history.

Internationally, Syria is the worst country for violence against women. Rape and torture in secret prisons, malnutrition, and gender-based violence is an everyday reality.