Al Jazeera marks International Women’s Day with two programmes on the global rape epidemic

As part of International Women’s Day, Al Jazeera’s 101 East programme has interviewed men who admit to carrying out gang rape in Cambodia. 

According to a UN report on the growing problem of sexual violence towards women in the Asia-Pacific region, Cambodia has one of the highest rates of gang rape 

Al Jazeera obtained new research from four UN agencies on violence towards women. 10,000 thousand men across seven countries in the Asia-Pacific were interviewed with startling results. One in four said they had raped a woman or girl in their lives. One in twenty admitted to taking part in gang rape. 

The research confirmed that there is no single cause of violence, but a complex interplay of factors related to individual experiences, community norms, and societal elements. 

In the survey, multiple reasons for rape were presented. 46% of the men said sexual entitlement was the most common reason, with anger, punishment, fun and boredom featuring more prominently in Cambodia than in any other country. 

At least half of the men admitted they carried out their first rape when they were a teenager, with 15% of the men saying they were under the age of 15 when they first committed rape.

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