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Gender-Based Violence  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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  • Death, Dowry
  • Dowry Death
  • Dowry Deaths

Scope note

  • Violence based on gender that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. (From www.who.int/topics/gender_based_violence/en/)

History note

  • 2018

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000074386

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