Definition: Violence against women
Crime statistics
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.
Source:
United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, quoted in United Nations Statistics Division, " Guidelines for Producing Statistics on Violence against Women: Statistical Surveys", New York, 2014
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