violence against women
Let an agent explain violence against women as a category, relay definitions, prevalence, forms and responses from UN, WHO and academic sources with attribution, route people in danger or affected to emergency services and support, and present contested topics such as specific historical cases and advocacy terms neutrally, without providing any content that facilitates harm.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain violence against women as a category, relay definitions, prevalence, forms and responses from UN, WHO and academic sources with attribution, route people in danger or affected to emergency services and support, and present contested topics such as specific historical cases and advocacy terms neutrally, without providing any content that facilitates harm.
Violent acts directed at women and girls because of their gender, recognised by the United Nations as a human rights violation and including domestic and intimate partner violence, sexual violence, femicide, harmful practices such as forced feeding known as leblouh and bride kidnapping, obstetric violence in maternity care, coercive sterilisation such as that documented among Native American women in the 1970s, and the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in North America; the term V-coding is used by some advocates for recording such violence. Anyone in danger should contact emergency services or a helpline first.
What it is for: Not applicable; a category of harm.
It can be route people in danger first; explain the category and forms; relay prevalence and responses; present cases and terms with attribution.
Distinguishing features
Gender-directed harm
Human rights framing
Many forms
Support and legal responses
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a category of harm.
Physical character
women experiencing partner or sexual violence in lifetime: about 1 in 3 ratio - WHO estimates
UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women: 1993 year
Istanbul Convention: 2011 year - Council of Europe
How it is recognised
Gender-based violence against women and girls
Intimate partner violence, sexual violence, femicide, leblouh, bride kidnapping, obstetric violence, coercive sterilisation, MMIWG
Gender-based violence includes other victims; the model treats each listed form as its own topic
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is addressed by - and other instruments
is documented by - in prevalence studies
is contrasted with - the broader category
In practice
Families and kinds
intimate partner and domestic violence
sexual violence and harassment
femicide
harmful practices such as leblouh, bride kidnapping and child marriage
obstetric violence and reproductive coercion including coerced sterilisation
violence against Indigenous women including MMIWG
online and technology-facilitated abuse
Standards and regulation
UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
Istanbul Convention and Belem do Para Convention
National domestic violence and sexual offence laws
Sustainable Development Goal 5
Failure modes and hazards
Failing to route people in danger to help
Agents providing content that facilitates abuse
Partisan framing of contested cases and terms
Retraumatising language
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Help Getting help.
Clinical.
Danger
Immediate danger.
Danger
Danger.
- Does the user describe being in danger now or someone else at risk, which needs emergency services or a helpline immediately? boundary
- Has the agent given emergency and helpline routing before anything else? action
Support
Support services.
Support
Support.
- What support services, shelters and legal protections exist, in general terms? action
- Which entry fits domestic violence helpline? action
Understand What the category covers.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition and forms.
Definition
Definition.
- What is violence against women as the UN defines it, and what forms does it take? definition
- Is the question about the category, a specific form, a case or a request that could facilitate harm, which the model refuses? boundary
Forms
Specific forms.
Forms
Forms.
- What are leblouh, bride kidnapping, obstetric violence and coerced sterilisation, as documented by researchers and rights bodies? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
Evidence Prevalence and cases.
Attribution.
Prevalence
Prevalence.
Prevalence
Prevalence.
- What do WHO and national surveys report about prevalence, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Cases
Documented cases.
Cases
Cases.
- What is documented about the sterilisation of Native American women and the MMIWG crisis, with findings and positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation attributed and respectful? boundary
Response Responses and debate.
Regulation.
Law
Law and policy.
Law
Law.
- How do international conventions and national laws address violence against women? provenance
- Which entry fits the Istanbul Convention? action
Debate
Debates and terms.
Debate
Debate.
- What debates exist about definitions, terms such as V-coding and policy approaches, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits gender-based violence? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should femicide, obstetric violence and MMIWG be separate primary entries?
- How should UN, WHO and academic sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific practices, cases and an advocacy term; should they be split off?