VAWC ( Anti- Violence against Women and their Children by Mark Gerald Sabit

sabitmarkgerald12 — 2024-08-21 14:44:49 UTC

Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights.

sabitmarkgerald12 — 2024-08-21 14:55:09 UTC

sabitmarkgerald12 — 2024-08-21 15:00:27 UTC

According to Republic Act 9262 or the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004, VAW is “any act or a series of acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, with or without the family abode, which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.”

VAW includes, but is not limited to, the following acts:

Physical violence or the act that includes bodily harm
Sexual violence or the act that is sexual in nature, committed against a woman or her child
Psychological violence or the act or omission that causes or is likely to cause mental or emotional suffering of the victim
Economic abuse or the act that makes or attempts to make a woman financially dependent

sabitmarkgerald12 — 2024-08-21 15:07:11 UTC

In addition, the term gender-based violence refers to "any acts or threats of acts intended to hurt or make women suffer physically, sexually, or psychologically, and which affect women because they are women or affect women disproportionately".Gender-based violence is often used interchangeably with violence against women, and some articles on VAW reiterate these conceptions by stating that men are the main perpetrators of this violence. Moreover, the definition stated by the 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women also supported the notion that violence is rooted in the inequality between men and women when the term violence is used together with the term gender-based