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Lesson 7: Gender-based Violence Flashcards

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is a persistent and universal problem occurring in every culture and social group.

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Violence against women

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Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime – most often by someone she knows, including a

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member of her own family, an employer or a co-worker.

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has been called “the most pervasive yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world.”

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Violence against women

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Accordingly, the [?] in Vienna in 1993 and the [?] in 1994 gave priority to this issue, which jeopardizes women’s lives, bodies, psychological integrity and freedom.

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Second World Conference on Human Rights

Fourth World Conference on Women

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Violence against women is often known as [?]because it partly stems from women’s subordinate status in society.

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‘gender-based’ violence

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is violence against women based on women’s subordinate status in society.

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Gender-based violence

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It includes any act or threat by men or male dominated institutions that inflict physical, sexual, or psychological harm on a woman or girl because of their gender.

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Gender-based violence

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In most cultures, traditional beliefs, norms and social institutions legitimize and therefore perpetuate violence against women.

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Gender-based violence

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physical, sexual and psychological violence such as

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domestic violence

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sexual abuse, including [?] and sexual abuse of children by family members;

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rape

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[?]; [?];

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forced pregnancy

sexual slavery

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traditional practices harmful to women, such as [?];

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honor killings, burning or acid throwing, female genital mutilation, dowry-related violence

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violence in armed conflict, such as;

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murder and rape

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emotional abuse, such as

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coercion and abusive language.

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Trafficking of women and girls for [?] are additional examples of violence against women.

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prostitution, forced marriage, sexual harassment and intimidation at work

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Gender violence occurs in both the

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‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres.

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Such violence not only occurs in the family and in the general community, but is sometimes also perpetuated by the state through policies or the actions of agents of the state such as the

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police, military or immigration authorities.

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happens in all societies, across all social classes, with women particularly at risk from men they know.

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Gender-based violence

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Types of Gender-Based Violence

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(includes battering, sexual assault, at home or in the workplace)

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 Overt physical abuse

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(includes deprivation of liberty, forced marriage, sexual harassment, at home or in the workplace)

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 Psychological abuse

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(including health care, nutrition, education, means of livelihood)

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 Deprivation of resources needed for physical and psychological well-being

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(includes trafficking in women and girls for sexual exploitation)

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 Treatment of women as commodities

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Prenatal sex physical/sexual/psychological child abuse during pregnancy

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Prenatal: Female

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coerced/forced pregnancy

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Prenatal, Adulthood: Female

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Prenatal sex selection

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Prenatal: Male

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Female infanticide

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Infancy: Female

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sexual, child abuse

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Infancy: Female

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living with domestic violence

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Infancy and Childhood: Male and Female

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neglect including access to food and medical care

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Infancy: Male and Female

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Physical/sexual/psychological child abuse

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Infancy: Male

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socialisation into violent behaviour

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Infancy: Male

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living with domestic violence
neglect including access to food and medical care

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Infancy: Male and Female

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Sexual, physical and emotional abuse

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Childhood: Male and female

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prostitution

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Childhood: Female

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child/forced marriage

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Childhood: Female

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FGM

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Childhood, Adolescence: Female

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femicide

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Childhood, Adulthood: Female

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up- bringing that does not allow deviation from traditional gender norms

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Childhood: Male and female

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medical care and education

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Childhood: Female

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male circumcision

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Childhood: Male

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forced recruitment of child soldiers

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Childhood: Male

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discrimination in nourishing food distribution

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Childhood: Female

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prostitution and pornography

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Adolescence: Female

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trafficking, sexual harassment at school and in the street

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Adolescence: Female

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forced marriage

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Adolescence: Female

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forced recruitment of child soldiers

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Adolescence: Male and female

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honour crimes

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Adolescence, Adulthood: Male and female

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intimate partner violence and rape and sexual assault by relatives, known persons or strangers

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Adolescence: Female

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gang violence

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Adolescence, Adulthood : Male

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expectations of violent behaviour as the norm

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Adolescence: Male

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invitation rites into violence

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Adolescence: Male

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Sexual harassment at work and in the public space

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Adulthood: Female

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intimate partner violence

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Adulthood, Old age: Female

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sexual exploitation and trafficking

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Adulthood: Female and male

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stalking

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Adulthood: Female

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witnessing or forced to conduct rape

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Adulthood: Male

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violence in the army and in conflict, gun violence

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Adulthood: Male

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Elder abuse

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Old age: Female and male

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rape, abuse of widows

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Old age: Female

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sexual harassment in public space

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Old age: Female

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institutional abuse

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Old age: Female

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Sites of Gender-Based Violence

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Family

Community/Society

Workplace

State

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is one of the primary sites of gender violence.

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Family

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It prepares its members for social life, forms gender stereotypes and perceptions of division of labor between the sexes.

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Family

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It is the arena where physical abuses (spousal battering, sexual assault, sexual abuse) and/or psychological abuses occur.

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Family

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(Domestic violence can also take such forms as confinement, forced marriage of woman arranged by her family without her consent, threats, insults and neglect; overt control of a woman’s sexuality through either forced pregnancy or forced abortion.)

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Family

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because violence takes place in the home, it is often seen as a ‘private’ issue and information about it is lacking.

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Family

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is a group sharing common social, cultural, religious or ethnic belonging, it perpetuates existing family structure and power inequalities in family and society.

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Community/Society

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justifies the behavior of male abusers aimed at establishing control over women in the family, and supports harmful traditional practices such as battering and corporal punishment

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Community

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can also be a site of violence.

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Workplace

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Either in governmental service or in a business company, women are vulnerable to sexual aggression (harassment, intimidation) and commercialized violence (trafficking for sexual exploitation)

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Workplace

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  • legitimizes power inequalities in family and society and perpetuates gender- based violence through enactment of discriminatory laws and polities or through the discriminatory application of the law.
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State

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It is responsible for tolerance of gender violence on an unofficial level (i.e. in the family and in the community).

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State

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To the extent that it is the State’s recognized role to sanction certain norms that protect individual life and dignity and maintain collective peace, it is the State’s obligation to develop and implement measures that redress gender violence

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State

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The primary inequality that gives rise to gender-based violence is the

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power inequality between women and men.

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The majority of perpetrators of gender-based violence are.

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men

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However, despite the fact that no society is free from it, [?] against women varies in degree and intensity according to the specific circumstances.

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male violence

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Many men choose to reject dominant stereotypes of violent, controlling

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masculinity.

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Some types of violence against women are perpetrated by

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women.

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Some authors (e.g. [?], in Ending Violence Against Women: A Challenge for Development and Humanitarian Work , Oxfam GB 2001) point out that oftentimes, women commit violence as a way to ensure their own survival and security within a social, economic, and political context that is shaped and dominated by men.

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Francine Pickup

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For example in some societies, older women may display violent behavior towards their

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daughters-in-law.

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may also interact to cause violence against women, when these are the factors increasing women’s vulnerability.

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Race and class

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who are socially and materially dependent on their husbands may use violence against their domestic workers to protect and assert their position as wives.

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Upper-class women

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is not exclusively a woman’s concern.

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Gender-based violence

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It is both a cause and consequence of gender perceptions.

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Gender-based violence

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The use of the term ‘?’ provides a new context in which to examine and understand the phenomenon of violence against women.
gender-based violence

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gender-based violence

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It shifts the focus from women as victims to gender and the unequal power relationships between women and men created and maintained by gender stereotypes as the basic underlying cause of violence against women.

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Gender-based Violence

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Violence against women was defined in 1993 by the [?] as “any act of genderbased 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 in private life”.

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United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women

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[?] in the family including battering, sexual abuse of girls and young women in the household

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 physical, sexual and psychological violence

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[?] and other harmful traditional practices

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 dowry-related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation

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[?] and violence related to exploitation

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 non-spousal violence

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[?] in the community including rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere

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 physical, sexual and psychological violence

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[?] and forced prostitution

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 trafficking of women

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[?] perpetuated or condoned by a State, wherever it occurs.

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 physical, sexual and psychological violence

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This definition was expanded in 1995 by the Fourth World Conference on Women in its Beijing Platform for Action, which added that such violence includes:
 [?] and forced abortion
 coercive or forced [?]
 female infanticide and [?]
 women’s human rights violations in situations of [?]– particularly murder, systematic rape, sexual slavery and forced pregnancy.

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forced sterilization

contraceptive use

prenatal sex selection

armed conflict

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The [?] identified as particularly vulnerable to violence those “belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee women, women migrants including women migrant workers, women in poverty living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, female children, women with disabilities, elderly women, displaced women, repatriated women, women living in poverty and women in situations of armed conflict, foreign occupation, wars of aggression, civil wars, [and] terrorism including hostage taking.

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Beijing Platform for Action

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  1. Violence only affects certain groups of women.
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  1. Domestic and sexual violence are the only types of violence affecting women.
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  1. Violence can affect all women from all socioeconomic and family backgrounds.
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  1. Physical abuse is just one of the many forms of violence.
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  1. Men have no role in ending violence against women.
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  1. Domestic violence is a private family matter.
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  1. Violence against women is a human rights issue.
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  1. Sexist attitude promote gender stereotypes and discrimination against women.
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  1. Sexual violence is more likely to be committed by a stranger.
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  1. There is nothing wrong with a sexist joke.
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  1. There is nothing we can do to stop violence against women.
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  1. Violence against women is the product of learned attitudes and norms.
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  1. Men can’t control their temper, thus they become violent.
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  1. Sexual violence is caused by women’s provocative and sexy attires.
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  1. Prostitution that involves money is not a gender-based type of violence.
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