Article: Women's Safety from Violence

Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: May 31, 2007

Women's Safety from Violence

Violence against women refers to any act of gender-based violence that results in physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women. Violence against women affects the health and human rights of women and includes trafficking, slavery, rape, abuse, domestic violence and harmful cultural practices and traditions that damage women's reproductive and sexual health. Women have the right to be safe from violence.

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women, girls, domestic violence, antiwar, pacifism, rape, violence against women, aggression, oppression, physical, vulnerable, advocacy, criminal justice, war crimes, enforcement, policy, assault, abuse, transforming a culture of violence, gender-based violence, armed conflict, international law, genocide, torture, domestic violence, violence against women

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Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.

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Women Against Violence
raises awareness of violence against women in Israel. WAV sees violence against women as a social problem practiced, legitimized and intensified by the traditions, norms and laws of society. The most extreme form of this is the murder of women which is justified by protecting the so-called "family honor."
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