1.   These rates for violence are likely to underestimate the actual level of wife battery, if only because some couples are reluctant to admit violence, researchers say.

2.   In a grim report detailing wife battery, forced prostitution and infanticide, a U.N. investigator said Wednesday that violence against women was a growing problem worldwide.

3.   Men stay all day in their prefabricated homes or tents, leading to an increase in wife battery and pregnancies, doctors and social workers say.

4.   Violence against women is a growing problem worldwide, a U.N. investigator said Wednesday, releasing a grim report detailing wife battery, forced prostitution and female infanticide.