Violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women including all acts of gender-based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
… study commissioned by EIGE and carried out by the European Women’s Lobby in 2011. The study focused on the following forms of sexual violenceagainstwomen – rape, marital rape, sexual abuse/assault, …