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Preventing Domestic Abuse
A National Strategy
Appendix 1
The UN General Assembly uses a definition of violence against women which includes any act of violence by men which results in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life.
Included in this definition is physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, including where such violence is inflicted upon children and young people in the household, culturally-related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, and violence related to exploitation. It also includes physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring within the general community, including rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and intimidation at work and elsewhere, trafficking in women and forced prostitution.
The UN definition as adapted above is used in "Preventing Violence Against Women - Action Across the Scottish Executive". 19
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