Putting Women First

Violence against women, in its various forms, is
endemic in communities and countries around
the world, cutting across class, race, age,
religious and national boundaries. According to the
United Nations Declaration, violence against women
includes “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
deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public
or private life (United Nations, 1993)”. The most
common type of violence against women worldwide
is “domestic violence” or the physical, emotional
and/or sexual abuse of women by their intimate
partners or ex-partners (Heise et al., 1999). Read more here