Any act which causes physical harm as a result of unlawful physical force. Physical violence can take the form of, among others, serious and minor assault, deprivation of liberty and manslaughter
… Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women and the most extreme form of gender … worldwide. One in five women in the EU have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by a current or previous …
… 31 % of women in the European Union have experienced physicalviolence by either a partner or a non-partner since the age of 15, and 7 % of women experienced physicalviolence by anyone in the 12 months before the …