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Loud silence on violence against women

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The United Nations terms Violence Against Women (VAW) 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".

This definition is important as it clarifies some of the known grey areas on matters violence.

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