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我真幸運有你這樣的____.

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Third of women suffer domestic violence: WHO 世衛︰三分之一婦女承受家暴痛苦

Women hold pictures of victims of violence during a protest to denounce domestic violence against women in Ankara, Turkey on May 11.
女性民眾五月十一日於土耳其安卡拉，在一場抗議對女性家暴的活動中，高舉遇害女子的照片。

Photo: AFP
照片：法新社

About a third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner, according to the first major review of violence against women.

In a series of papers released by the World Health Organization and others, experts estimated nearly 40 percent of women killed worldwide were slain by an intimate partner and that being assaulted by a partner was the most common kind of violence experienced by women.

The WHO defined physical violence as being slapped, pushed, punched, choked or being attacked with a weapon. Sexual violence was defined as being physically forced to have sex, having sex because you were afraid of what your partner might do and being compelled to do something sexual that was humiliating or degrading.

The report also examined rates of sexual violence against women by someone other than a partner and found about 7 percent of women worldwide had previously been a victim.

Globally, the WHO review found 30 percent of women are affected by domestic or sexual violence by a partner. The report was based largely on studies from 1983 to 2010. According to the UN, more than 600 million women live in countries where domestic violence is not considered a crime.

(AP)

TODAY’S WORDS 今日單字

1. domestic adj.

家庭的；愛家的 (jia1 ting2 de5; ai4 jia1 de5)

例: His second marriage has made him very domestic.

(他的二度婚姻使他變得非常喜愛家庭生活。)

2. compel v.

強迫；使不得不 (qiang1 po4; shi3 bu4 de2 bu4)

例: She was compelled to take the responsibility for her husband’s wrongdoing.

(她不得不承擔她丈夫惡行的責任。)

3. degrading adj.

有辱人格的；丟臉的 (you3 ru4 ren2 ge2 de5; diu2 lian3 de5)

例: The poor man believed that accepting charity was degrading.

(那窮人認為接受施捨有辱人格。)

第一份檢視婦女受暴的重要評論指出，全球約三分之一婦女遭前任或現任伴侶施加身體或性攻擊。

在世界衛生組織與其他單位公布的一系列報告中，專家估計全球近百分之四十遭殺害的婦女是死於親密伴侶之手，而被伴侶攻擊是女性所經歷的最普遍暴力類型。

世衛將身體暴力定義為被掌摑、猛推、拳打、掐頸或武器攻擊。性暴力則定義為被迫性交，亦即性交是因害怕伴侶可能的行動，而被迫從事令人羞辱或有辱人格的性作為。

這份報告也檢視不是遭伴侶施暴的婦女性暴力比率，發現全球約百分之七婦女以前就是受害者。

全球而言，世衛的這份評論發現百分之三十婦女受伴侶家暴或性暴力衝擊。這份報告大幅以一九八三年至二○一○年的研究為基礎。根據聯合國的資料，超過六億婦女生活在不把家暴視作犯罪的國家。

(美聯社／翻譯：魏國金）

Severe headaches tied to suicide attempts: study 嚴重頭痛較易企圖自殺

People with severe headaches, whether migraines or not, may be more likely to attempt suicide, according to a US study of more than a thousand people.

A number of studies over the years have found that people with migraines tend to have a higher suicide rate than those without, but it has not been clear if this is related specifically to the “biology of migraines,” said Naomi Breslau of Michigan State University at East Lansing, who led the study.

The study followed nearly 1,200 Detroit, Michigan-area adults. About 500 of them were migraine sufferers, while 151 had severe headaches that were not migraines. The rest were free of serious headaches and served as a control group. In this study, severe non-migraines were defined as intense headaches lasting more than four hours.

Over two years, the migraine and severe-headache groups had similar rates of attempted suicide. Almost nine percent of migraine sufferers said they had tried to kill themselves, as did 10 percent of those with severe non-migraine headaches, compared with a rate of just over one percent in the control group.

(Reuters)

美國一項針對逾一千人的研究發現，患有嚴重頭痛者，不管是否為偏頭痛，可能較易企圖自殺。

位在東南辛市的密西根州立大學的研究領導者布瑞斯勞表示，歷年來多項研究發現，偏頭痛者自殺率較無偏頭痛者高，但不清楚這是否與「偏頭痛生理因素」有特別相關。

研究追蹤密西根州底特律地區近一千兩百名成年人，其中約五百人為偏頭痛患者，一百五十一人有非偏頭痛的嚴重頭痛，其餘是沒有嚴重頭痛的對照組。在這項研究中，非偏頭痛的嚴重頭痛定義為劇烈頭痛持續逾四小時。

兩年間，偏頭痛與嚴重頭痛組企圖自殺的比率不相上下。有近百分之九的偏頭痛病患表示曾試圖自殺，嚴重頭痛的非偏頭痛病患則有百分之十。對照組想輕生的比率僅逾百分之一。

（路透／翻譯：國際新聞中心）

TODAY’S WORDS 今日單字

1. attempt n.

嘗試 (chang2 shi4)

例: This is my second attempt at the exam.

(這是我第二次嘗試這個考試。)

2. tend v.

傾向 (qing1 xiang4)

例: Women tend to live longer than men.

(女性傾向活得比男性長壽。)

3. relate v.

使相關 (shi3 xiang1 guan1)

例: Researchers are saying poor exam results are related to large class sizes.

(研究人員試著將考試低分的原因與班級人數多有關。)