A data count by women's shelters across 46 countries has been presented to Crown Princess Mary of Denmark during the World Conference of Women's Shelters in The Hague.
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The count showed 53,230 women sought help from a shelter or agency during a 24-hour period, along with 34,794 children. Of the women, 340 were pregnant.
In the same 24 hours, 7337 women and 4410 children were turned away because of a lack of resources.
Participating countries included: Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Egypt, Ecuador, Iceland, Italy, Lebanon, Nepal, Netherlands, America, Palestine and Turkey.
In Australia, 1031 women and 798 children were helped, while 52 women and 74 children were turned away because there were insufficient resources.
The data count, collected by the Global Network of Women's Shelters, was first recorded in 2009 and 24 countries participated.
Each year, the number of participating countries is increasing and the goal is to collect data from 100 countries next year.
The Global Network of Women's Shelters is made up of shelter organisations from across the globe.
Their goals include raising global awareness of violence against women and their children, promoting effective policies and their implementation in order to prevent violence and protect and empower women and their children and promoting social change that ends violence and oppression against women and their children.
The Centre for Non Violence and Annie North women's refuge are presenting throughout the conference.
