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Violence against Women: Yes, This Topic is Still Important

By Maya Paley

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/womanwrites/item/violence_against_women_yes_this_topic_is_still_important

In the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, issued in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly, “violence against women” is defined as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." Until women are no longer threatened by physical, sexual, or mental harm, we better be learning this definition and reminding everyone we know of its existence.

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