Gender-Based Violence or Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

‘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 in private life’ (UN DEVAW 1993).

Synonyms and Abbreviation
GBV
SGBV
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