Source: Daily Monitor
Women from minority and indigenous communities are targeted for rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture and killings, a new report has shown.

According to the State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2011 Report released online by Minority Rights Group International last week, the degrading acts are meted out against women because of their ethnic, religious or indigenous identity.

According to the report, 100 per cent of women from the Batwa community in southwestern Uganda experience physical violence and in many cases it was ongoing. Batwa are one of the poorest and most marginalised communities in Africa.

Of the women interviewed in Uganda for the research last year, 57 per cent had been sexually abused at some time in their lives, with 46 per cent having suffered marital rape. Other forms of violence they mentioned included dowry-related violence (25 per cent) and forced marriage (21 per cent).

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