Gender-based violence is a form of discrimination that seriously prevents women from enjoying rights and freedoms on the same basis as men. (1)
Discrimination against women includes gender-based violence, that is, violence against a woman because she is a woman or which particularly affects women… (6) ”.
General Recommendation No 19
"Violence against women" means all acts of violence directed against the female sex, and causing or likely to cause physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including the threat of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether in public or private life (Art.1)”.
“Violence against women and girls is a form of discrimination which seriously undermines their ability to exercise their fundamental rights and freedoms and is rooted in inequality between genders, social norms and deeply rooted negative stereotypes, poverty, economic, social and cultural inequality and unequal power relations between men and women (Para 2) ”
of women said they no longer felt safe…
of women suffered from violence in a public space
single women are victims of violence in pubic space
of Moroccan women think that VAWGs have increased