"Gender-related violence or gender-based violence includes any kind of violence directed against people due to their gender or gender identification."
A discussion of the various forms of violence and harassment that women and other marginalized gender identities may face, including sexual assault, domestic violence, and workplace harassment.
Definitions and Types of Gender-Based Violence and Harassment: Understanding the different forms of gender-based violence such as physical, sexual, psychological, and economic abuse.
Historical and Global Context of Gender-Based Violence: Learning about the historical, cultural, and social contexts that facilitate gender-based violence around the world.
Theory and Frameworks: Exploring feminist theory and conceptual frameworks that shed light on the root causes of gender-based violence and harassment.
Laws and Policies Addressing Gender-Based Violence: Understanding the legal and policy frameworks developed to combat gender-based violence and protect victims' rights.
Intersectionality and GBV: Acknowledging how multiple forms of oppression, such as race, ethnicity, and disability, intersect with gender-based violence to create different experiences for different women.
Masculinities and GBV: Examining how gender norms and roles impact men's behavior and perpetration of gender-based violence.
Dynamics of Power and Control: Analyzing the power dynamics that facilitate and perpetrate gender-based violence within relationships, workplaces, and societies.
Prevention and Intervention Strategies: Learning about prevention strategies like education and awareness campaigns, and intervention strategies like counseling and advocacy.
Survivor Interventions and Recovery: Understanding the long-term effects of gender-based violence on survivors and learning about the therapeutic, legal, and social interventions that can enable recovery.
Media, Culture and GBV: Examining how media and popular culture influence attitudes and behaviors towards gender-based violence, and how they can be used to promote positive societal change.
Physical violence: This involves the use of physical force or aggression to cause harm or injury to someone.
Sexual violence: Involves any form of unwanted sexual attention or touching, including rape, sexual assault or molestation.
Emotional/psychological violence: Involves any action or behavior that causes an individual to feel terrorized, intimidated or belittled. This includes verbal abuse, threats, isolation, stalking, and humiliation.
Discrimination: Occurs when an individual is treated differently or unfairly, on the basis of their gender or sexual orientation.
Economic abuse: Involves the use of financial power to control or dominate an individual. This can include withholding money or resources, denying access to education or job opportunities, or restricting access to healthcare.
Cyber harassment: This is when individuals targeted online, sometimes referred to as online stalking.
Political violence: Involves physical or emotional harm caused by political actors or institutions to an individual or group due to their gender or sexual orientation.
Forced marriage: This involves a marriage where one or both parties are entered into without their free and informed consent.
Honor killings: Involve the murder of a family member who is believed to have brought dishonor to the family.
Female genital mutilation: This involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia.
"Types of gender-related violence include: Violence against women... Violence against men... Violence against LGBT people... Violence against transgender people, including non-binary people... Gay bashing... Online gender-based violence..."
"Violence against women (sometimes referred to simply as 'gender violence')"
"Violence against men"
"Violence against LGBT people"
"Violence against transgender people, including non-binary people"
"Gay bashing, which may be related to gender expression"
"Online gender-based violence, violence against any of the above groups (although disproportionately women) that takes place online"
"Gender-related violence or gender-based violence includes any kind of violence directed against people due to their gender or gender identification."
"Violence against women (sometimes referred to simply as 'gender violence')"
"Violence against men"
"Types of gender-related violence include:... Violence against LGBT people... Violence against transgender people, including non-binary people... Gay bashing... Online gender-based violence..."
"Violence against LGBT people"
"Violence against transgender people, including non-binary people"
"Gay bashing, which may be related to gender expression"
"Online gender-based violence, violence against any of the above groups (although disproportionately women) that takes place online"
"Gender-related violence or gender-based violence includes any kind of violence directed against people due to their gender or gender identification."
"Violence against women (sometimes referred to simply as 'gender violence')"
"Violence against men"
"Types of gender-related violence include:... Violence against LGBT people... Violence against transgender people, including non-binary people... Gay bashing... Online gender-based violence..."