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According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner. This is roughly more than 12 million women and ...
Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence [1] [2] and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), [3] is violent acts primarily committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [4] committed against persons specifically because they are of the female gender, and can ...
Every year, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign either introduces a new theme, or continues an old theme. The theme focuses on one particular area of gender inequality and works to bring attention to these issues and make changes that will have an impact.
This category is for articles on the topic of sexual or gender-based violence against women or girls. The scope of this category includes sexual violence against women, sexual and gender-based violence against women in conflict situations, domestic violence against women (including honor killings), and violence against trans women.
Her murder highlighted the broader national problem of gender based violence and femicide in South Africa, [4] [5] [6] and is credited with "shifting the South African collective consciousness" [7] and "igniting a movement". [8] [9]
President Joe Biden on Thursday will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act by announcing new efforts to curb gender-based violence, senior administration officials said.
Violence against men; Violence against LGBT people. Violence against transgender people, including non-binary people; Gay bashing, which may be related to gender expression; School-related gender-based violence; Online gender-based violence, violence against any of the above groups (although disproportionately women) that takes place online ...
The White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) is a global movement of men and boys working to end male violence against women and girls.It was formed by a group of pro-feminist men in Toronto, Ontario, in November 1991 as a response to the École Polytechnique massacre of female students by Marc Lépine in 1989.