Gender based violence

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  • Gender-based violence is a form of violence that is directed against women and girls.
  • Physical violence is the use of physical force to control or harm another person.
  • Sexual assault refers to any sexual  contact or activity without consent.
  • Verbal violence the use if aggressive and harmful language to others.
  • Domestic abuse is controlling behaviors within intimate relationships that cause physical, psychological, or sexual harm
  • Harrasment involves unwanted and persistent attention or behavior, a person or group of people behaving in a way that is intended to cause harm or distress.
  • Perpetrator: a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.
  • Victim: A person harmed by an action or event; someone who suffers from one's own or other's actions or neglect.
  • Human-rights violations in the Philippines include the killing of journalists, the killing of political activists, and the killing of indigenous people.
  • Power: the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way. It could be, social, economic, and political, gender base, physical, ages related.
  • Force: strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement
  • Consent: permission for something to happen or agreement to do something
  • Informed consent is the process of obtaining permission from participants to take part in a study.