A/HRC/35/10 an inability to adequately communicate or understand their cultural practices.15 Specific groups of women and girls are also often disproportionately affected by language barriers. 29. Women from particular ethnic or racial groups can face greater risk of forced sterilization, forced pregnancy or restrictions on the number and spacing of children. The forced sterilization of women from particular ethnic or racial groups in States such as China, Czechia, Peru and Slovakia has been addressed by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/CZE/CO/10-11, CERD/C/PER/CO/18-21 and CERD/C/SVK/CO/9-10), the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW/C/SVK/CO/5-6, CEDAW/C/CZE/CO/5 and CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/6), the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/PER/CO/2-4) and the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (A/HRC/12/17). Ethnic and religious minority women in Myanmar are also affected by laws and local orders that coerce them to use contraception and restrict the number and the spacing of their children (A/HRC/32/18, paras. 20 and 43). 30. Intersecting forms of discrimination and violence can cause mental health problems, such as depression or anxiety. In Austria, Italy and Sweden, migrant women are more often affected by psychosocial disabilities, such as severe anxiety, and attempt suicide more often.16 D. Violence against women and girls 31. Stereotypes and prejudice based on a combination of factors, including race, ethnicity, work and descent, religion and gender, expose women and girls to a greater risk of being targeted by various forms of violence. According to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, attacks against women who are visibly Muslim have been reported for a number of countries where the majority of Islamophobic acts committed in 2015 targeted women (74 per cent in France and 90 per cent in the Netherlands).17 The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance found that political parties with anti-immigrant and anti-minority agendas play a significant role in fostering fears among the population against a single religion, also noting the detrimental effects on Muslim women (A/HRC/15/53, paras. 59-60).18 The Special Rapporteur on minority issues found that Roma women were stereotyped as promiscuous, which exposed them to a heightened risk of exploitation and sexual and gender-based violence (A/HRC/29/24, para. 34). 32. Women and girls experience violence at the hands of a variety of actors. The Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice noted that indigenous women in the United States of America are more than twice as likely as other women to be victims of violence, and that one in three will be raped during her lifetime. It was estimated that nearly 80 per cent of rapes of indigenous women were by non-indigenous men. The Working Group also referred to reports of police brutality and an increased number of homicides of African-American women by the police (A/HRC/32/44/Add.2, para. 78). 15 16 17 18 8 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), State of world population 2012, 14 November 2012, p. 56. See European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Inequalities and multiple discrimination in access to and quality of healthcare, Luxembourg, 2013, p. 37. European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Current migration situation in the EU: hate crime, November 2016, p. 6. See also A/HRC/32/50, para. 63.