Gap Fill - Violence against Women - Level 6

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Police in the UK have released a report highlighting a serious in violence against women and girls. The report states that levels of and criminal acts against women are at levels. More than one million such have been reported in one year. This may be just the tip of the . There will be a substantial number of of violence that go unreported. London's Metropolitan Police wrote about the of this problem. It said: "Violence against women and girls is , systemic, and a threat to society on the same scale as terrorism." It added that crimes against women constituted 20 per cent of all crime. It said: "We must act to change the unacceptable for women and girls."

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