What is Gender-based Violence

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Violence committed on an individual based on his or her sex or gender identity, usually women or transgender or other sexual minorities. Learn more in: Gender-Based Violence and Legal Frameworks

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Is an umbrella term for any harmful act done against one’s will, and such that is based, especially on society’s determined roles between men and women. Learn more in: Towards Nonviolent Gender Relations in Africa: An Introduction to Inter-Gender Dialogue

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It involves men and women, in which the female is usually the target, and is derived from unequal power relationships between men and women. Violence is directed specifically against a woman because she is a woman or affects women disproportionately. It includes, but is not limited to, physical, sexual, and psychological harm. The most pervasive form of gender-based violence is abuse of a woman by intimate male partners. Learn more in: Identifiable Challenges as Global Complexities: Globalization, Gender Violence, and Statelessness