Violence against women means...

Publisher

UNIFEM

Summary

• ….Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in. PHYSICAL, SEXUAL or PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM or SUFFERING to women, including THREATS of such acts, COERCION or ARBITRARY DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY, whether occurring in PUBLIC or PRIVATE LIFE.
• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
• (adopted by United Nation General Assembly on December,1993, GA Res48/104)
• END |SILENCE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
• Lawyers Collective
• Women’s Right Initiative