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Trends in Violence against Women: Some Good News and Some Bad News

Kristiina Kangaspunta, Ineke Haen Marshall

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Violence against women (VAW) or gender-based violence has been on the agenda of the international community since 1993, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Declaration introduced also the first internationally agreed upon definition on violence against women: For the purposes of this Declaration, the term “violence against women” means 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 United Nations General Assembly, 1993. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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Violence against women (VAW) or gender-based violence has been on the agenda of the international community since 1993, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Declaration introduced also the first internationally agreed upon definition on violence against women: For the purposes of this Declaration, the term “violence against women” means 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 United Nations General Assembly, 1993. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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Violence against women (VAW) or gender-based violence has been on the agenda of the international community since 1993, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Declaration introduced also the first internationally agreed upon definition on violence against women: For the purposes of this Declaration, the term “violence against women” means 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 United Nations General Assembly, 1993. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Key concepts: Declaration, Harm, Coercion (linguistics), General assembly, Sexual violence, Political science, Criminology, Psychology

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