A/HRC/4/3 page 22 A. Violence against women 78. Data collected by the data collection committee of the National Round Table show that: (a) Most sexual attacks are committed by men, and the vast majority of the victims are single women; (b) Nearly 50 per cent of cases involve minors under 18 years of age, a percentage that calls for the creation of specific care services for these victims; (c) Most of the perpetrators are unknown to their victims and often use a firearm to intimidate them; (d) Gang rapes have been increasing at an alarming rate (according to NGOs, there has been a 41- or 49-per cent increase); (e) There is an urgent need for a campaign to raise victims’ awareness of the importance of receiving medical treatment immediately after an attack; currently, such treatment is mostly sought, if at all, 72 hours - or three days - after the incident; (f) The high rate of marital violence (between 59 per cent and 68 per cent, according to NGOs) would necessitate an awareness campaign for men in order to make them assume responsibility and participate in efforts to prevent violence against women; (g) In order to overcome the constant reluctance of victims to report attacks, it is important to institute a “reassuring” procedure and to undertake prolonged awareness-raising activities for the police and justice services, including prosecutors. 79. With regard to awareness-raising activities, the independent expert notes with satisfaction: − The initiative taken by the National Police Training Centre, which organized two training sessions, in December 2005 and July 2006, for instructors and candidate instructors. In addition, a working group of four instructors from the Training Centre is finalizing - with the National Round Table on the Prevention of Violence against Women - a model for such training, which will be provided by instructors to candidate police officers; − The UNFPA initiative, which has launched training activities for the instructors of the Haitian National Police and UNCIVPOL on the subject “Human rights and population”, one of the aims of which is to prevent and combat violence against women and its consequences; the activities covered such topics as gender equality, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS awareness-raising, in cooperation with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). A recent session brought together 45 instructors.