Description
This gallery depicts violence against women in the world literature. Violence against women takes various forms, such as physical, sexual, emotional abuse, or financial
abuse.
The first article in the United Nation’s Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women describes violence against women as “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 deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/vaw/
