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WHO characterizes violence against women, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, as major public health problems and violations of women’s human rights. Declaring violence against women “a pandemic in diverse forms,” UN Women emphasizes that the spectrum of violence against women extends from rape as a mode of ethnic cleansing and genocide in war to widespread sexual harassment on the streets and in the schools.
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Liotta, E. (2016). Gender Power and Violence: Perspectives for Change. In: Vianello, M., Hawkesworth, M. (eds) Gender and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514165_19
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