A young girl eating ice cream covers this month's issue of AOGS. For many of us this symbolizes the warm and relaxing summertime and a vacation spent peacefully with friends and family. This is, however, not the case for everybody in the world. Lately we have faced several terrible news from around the world, many of these demonstrating the results of violence and abuse against women. In May two teenage girls were raped and murdered and found hanged in a tree in northern India (http://www.bbc.comews/world-asia-india-27615590). Sadly, these girls are only two more in a series of similar crimes on girls and women being reported in the news from India during the last year (http://www.npr.org/tags/ 169965972/india-rape-case). Violence against women is though not unique to India, - rather it is prevalent around the world. In the Women and Health report from WHO it is stated that 35% of women worldwide have experienced violence.
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