- "Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), are violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls."
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 sexual assault, domestic violence, and female genital mutilation.
Definition of Violence against Women: Understanding what constitutes as violence against women, including physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse.
Patriarchy and Gender Inequality: Exploring how patriarchal systems reinforce gender inequality and contribute to the prevalence of violence against women.
Historical and Cultural Context: Examining how cultural and historical factors contribute to the perpetuation of violence against women.
Types of Violence: Identifying various forms of violence against women such as domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and female genital mutilation.
Impact of Violence: Understanding the emotional, physical, and psychological impacts of violence on women and their families.
Legal and Human Rights Framework: Examining international and local legal frameworks, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
Global and Regional Perspective: Analyzing violence against women as a development issue and how it is addressed in various countries around the world.
Responses to Violence: Understanding the different strategies and interventions to prevent and respond to violence against women, including advocacy, education, and support services.
Masculinity and Violence: Exploring the role of masculinity in perpetuating violence against women and how it can be addressed through changing societal norms and expectations.
Intersectionality and Violence: Acknowledging the intersection of various identities, such as race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation, and how they affect experiences of violence against women.
Physical Violence: This includes hitting, slapping, pushing, pulling, choking, or any other form of physical abuse that a woman may experience.
Sexual Violence: Rape, molestation, harassment, or any other form of physical or verbal sexual abuse that women may experience.
Psychological Violence: This includes emotional abuse, verbal abuse, threatening, blackmailing, gaslighting, or any other form of abuse that may cause emotional distress to women.
Economic Violence: This includes financial exploitation, controlling assets, denying economic resources, or any other form of economic abuse that women may experience.
Digital Violence: This includes stalking, cyber-bullying, hacking, sharing private photos, or any other form of online abuse that women may experience.
- "Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, committed against women or girls specifically because they are female."
- "Such violence can take many forms."
- "Such violence may arise from a sense of entitlement, superiority, misogyny or similar attitudes in the perpetrator or his violent nature, especially against women."
- "The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women states, 'violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women.'"
- "At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime with the abuser usually someone known to her."
- "VAW has a very long history, though the incidents and intensity of such violence have varied over time."
- "Such violence is often seen as a mechanism for the subjugation of women, whether in society in general or in an interpersonal relationship."
- "Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, committed against women or girls specifically because they are female."
- "Such violence may arise from a sense of entitlement, superiority, misogyny or similar attitudes in the perpetrator or his violent nature, especially against women."
- "Violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men."
- "The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women states, 'violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women.'"
- "Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, declared in a 2006 report [...] Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions."
- "At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime with the abuser usually someone known to her."