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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."
