Dr. Giedrė Purvaneckienė

MAIN FINDINGS

* 63.3% of Lithuanian women have been victims of male physical or sexual violence or threats after their 16th birthday.

* 42.4% of all married and cohabiting women have been victims of physical or sexual violence or threats of violence by their present partner.

* 53% of all women who had lived in relationships which had already terminated experienced violence or threats by their ex-partners.

* 11% of Lithuanian women had at least once, after their 16th birthday, been victims of male physical or sexual violence or threats, perpetrated by a stranger, 8.2 % - by a friend, and 14.4 % by an acquaintance or relative.

* 71.4% of Lithuanian women after their 16th birthday have been victims of sexual harassment or sexually offensive behaviour by a stranger, and 43.8% by a known man.

* 26.5% of Lithuanian women after their 16th birthday had experienced sexual abuse by a stranger; 18.2 % by a known man; 17 % were attempted to coerce into sexual intercourse by their date.

* 3.4% of all victimised women reported that the experienced violence did not affect them, the absolute majority reported that this had caused hatred, helplessness, sorrow or other negative emotions.

* 10.6% of the victims reported the most serious incident to the police.

* women who were victimised in their parental families more often were victimised in their marital families; women whose mother was abused by the spouse, more often experienced violence by their spouses; men whose father had been violent against the mother, had been more often violent against their own partner.

* 75.3% of adult Lithuanian women do not feel safe from risk of assault.

* 79% of Lithuanian women believe that the home is the safest place for women and children.