In his 2006 report for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, then Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan said violence against women and girls was “a problem of pandemic proportions” with at least one out of every three women having been “beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime” by someone she knew.
This “pandemic” often hits home in Washington State, where there have been 422 people killed by their romantic partners or exes since 2009. Of those deaths, 21 were from Clark County.