There is a mismatch between media portrayals of "ideal victims" -- young, sober women attacked at knifepoint in parking lots at night -- and research on real-world victims -- nearly three-quarters of whom know the perpetrator (rising to nearly 90percentt on college campuses) and only 7percentt of whom were attacked with a firearm, knife or other weapon.
The vast majority of the nations that participate in the U.N. talks are victims, not perpetrators, of the rising seas, spreading deserts and other climate impacts that scientists say are brought on by increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
Known occurrences of sexual abuse of minors by priests rose sharply during those decades, the report found, and the problem grew worse when the church's hierarchy responded by showing more care for the perpetrators than the victims.
Since Brexit, racist abuse and attacks have risen sharply, and perpetrators appear to feel no shame.
According to authorities on campus violence, women make up a small but rising share of perpetrators in violent crimes at colleges — representing about 7percentt of all assailants — a reflection of cultural changes and the growing majority of women in the collegiate population.
Whether the Pakistani military is orchestrating the violence or merely shielding its perpetrators, tensions with India are rising dangerously.
Experts offer a variety of explanations, including homophobia, rising gang violence, broad impunity for perpetrators and a general mistrust of the police in many Latin American countries.
He added that no "honorable" Iraqi man would accept this, and, his voice rising with emotion, he called the perpetrators "bastards".
By the time The Economist went to press, the number of reported cases had risen to more than 600; 45 alleged perpetrators had been detained and eight charged.The government, however, has produced no evidence of any terrorist link.
