…any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in physical, psychological or sexual harm or suffering to a woman, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, occurring during her lifetime public or private.
DEFINITION OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ADOPTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 1993
Violence against women is the manifestation of a HISTORICAL DISPARITY IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF FORCE BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, which has led to the DOMINATION of men over women and to DISCRIMINATION against them, and has prevented real progress in the condition of women.