Preferred term
Gender-based violence
Broader concept
Broader conceptScope note
Notes about the usage and scope of the concept.- Violence directed against a person because of that person’s gender, gender identity or gender expression, or which affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately.
Belongs to array
Array which the concept belongs to.In other languages
Terms for the concept in other languages.Arabic
- عنف جنساني
- العنف الجنساني
French
- Violence fondée sur le genre
- Violence basée sur le genre
- Violence liée au genre
Russian
Spanish
- Violencia de género
- Violencia por razón del género
URI
http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept17151