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Gender-based violence is violence directed against a person because of their gender. Both women
and men experience gender-based violence but the majority of victims are women and girls1. To this
respect, CEDAW defined gender-based violence as “violence that is directed against a woman
because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately. It includes acts that inflict
physical, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other deprivations of
liberty2. Furthermore, in 1993 UN DEVAW defined violence against women as “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”. Considering all these, within the Regional Spotlight
Initiative, by gender-based violence we shall refer to violence against women and girls because they
are at greater risk of experiencing certain types of violence. |
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