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Chapter 52 - Sexual Violence

from Section 3B - Sexual Healthcare along the Life Course

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2024

By
Johannes Bitzer
Edited by
Johannes Bitzer  and
Tahir A. Mahmood
Johannes Bitzer
Affiliation:
University Women's Hospital, Basel
Tahir A. Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
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Summary

Sexual violence against women is one of the most important threats to women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights [1]. In a broader perspective sexual violence against women can be viewed as part of gender-based violence which is defined by the United Nations (UN) as ‘any act … 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’ [2].

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Textbook of Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health , pp. 340 - 346
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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