VAW defined

“Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.” -VAW

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Violence against women includes
(but is not limited to):

*Gender-based domestic violence
*Rape, marital rape and incest
*Forced marriage
*Female genital mutilation
*Murder and assault including dowry-related violence and honour killings
*Human trafficking including cross-border prostitution rings and bride kidnappings
*War crimes including rape as a weapon of war

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